u/rsvihla would you be so kind to stop spamming the same comment on every single post of this subreddit? It wasn't funny the first time and it's not gonna be funny the 50th. Asking you directly since the mods here don't seem to care at all.
Opened as a college for women, it was left empty after the school moved to a new campus (the college closed in 2024). The town of Barre bought the building and demolished it in 1938, using a PWA grant to build an auditorium on the site.
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Was part of the 1926 World's fair in Philadelphia. Erected to celebrate America's 150th anniversary.
100 years ago today.
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During the Nazi era, Kaiserslautern was to become the Gau-Capital. One of the streets that ran directly past the synagoge was intended as a parade route for marches. Mayor Richard Imbt used this as a pretext to have the synagogue demolished, as he claimed that the synagogue never fit into the cityscape and was hindering the necessary road improvements.
The jewish community was forced to sell the synagogue to the city, and after a farewell service was held in August 1938, the demolition began. However, the massive walls of the Synagogue withstood the initial demolition attempts, so the nazis eventually blew it up.
“The New Reich Chancellery was the planning and starting point of the Second World War and also stands symbolically for the catastrophic end of the Nazi regime.”
However, there has long been a plan for development at the site.
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