Fasanenstrasse Synagogue - Closure and Kristallnacht

Closure and Kristallnacht

The synagogue functioned for only twenty four years until the Nazi authorities forced it to close in 1936. The building was destroyed during the Kristallnacht pogrom in the night of 9–10 November 1938. From the Beer Hall Putsch commemoration in Munich, Minister Joseph Goebbels personally gave the orders to smash the synagogue, at that time the largest in Berlin. SA troopers broke into the building, shattered the interior and finally set the synagogue on fire with fuel they got from a nearby filling station—in the presence of the fire department, which confined itself to prevent the flames from spreading to neighbouring houses.

In 1943, the remains of the building were again devastated during an Allied air raid.