The Historian · Greta · Berlin
New Synagogue (Neue Synagoge)
A single officer stood down the mob here in 1938. Most of the building is gone, but that act of courage is why the dome still shines.
A gilded 1866 Moorish-domed synagogue, saved from the 1938 pogrom by one policeman, gutted by wartime bombing, its facade rebuilt.
— Greta, The Historian
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