A glimpse of devastations suffered by Ancona during the bombardment of 16 October 1943: death toll near 300. After this, the town of Marche suffered many other raids particularly devastating. Victor Sierra

Ancona bombed

Ohel Jacob Synagogue, principal synagogue of Munich, as it was pre-1938.  The site was donated to the Jewish community by King Ludwig II of Bavaria - patron of Hitler's musical hero, Richard Wagner - in 1882.  Interestingly, the building did not have to wait for the Kristallnacht pogrom to be destroyed.  Acting on a comment of Hitler's, to the effect that the synagogue was "an eyesore", Gauleiter Adolf Wagner arbitrarily ordered its demolition on 9 June, 1938 - five months before the pogrom.  Demolition had not been completed by pogrom-time, so that a final bout of destruction occurred at that point.  The site, apparently, became a car park.  Best regards, JR.

Ohel Jacob Synagogue, Munich, pre-1938.

French gendarmes and German officers (SS and Luftwaffe) near the Place de la Concorde in Paris.