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Today there is little visual evidence of the era of Nazi rule or
the damage caused by the war. When the city was rebuilt,
advocates of reconstruction of the pre-1933 architecture
won the day. The Temples of Honour on Königsplatz were
demolished by the American military government in 1947,
although the pedestals were later declared historic monuments.
The granite slabs that had been laid on Königsplatz
in the mid-1930s were replaced with grass in 1988, restoring
the square to its original appearance.
The New Town Hall
on Marienplatz
served as the headquarters
of the
American military
government.
The city centre in
1945 with the
Frauenkirche in
the background
After the war, former concentration
camp inmates, forced labourers, POWs
and refugees from the east gathered in
Munich. Very few of Munich’s Jewish
citizens survived the concentration
camps to return to the city. The Jewish
Community 48 49 , which had twelve
thousand members before the Nazis
took power, had only three hundred at
the end of 1945.
Commemoration at the Feldherrnhalle, 1947
A small plaque mounted in 1984 on the building now occupied by
the Bayerische Landesbank (Bank of Bavaria), at the intersection of
Brienner Straße and Türkenstraße, states that this was the site of the
Gestapo headquarters.
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