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Was the synagogue destroyed in 1938 but the photo taken at a later date? The Frauenkirche in the background appears also to be damaged.

The synagogue was destroyed in June 1938, but you are correct....I think the Frauenkirche looks damaged. I will look at the original picture and get back to you, I think maybe the catalogue record is incorrect, and the individual doing the cataloging put June 1938 assuming it was taken shortly after the synagogue was destroyed. Incidentally, the synagogue in Munich was destroyed in June 1938, many months before the Kristallnacht. It was the first synagogue to be destroyed in Germany in the Nazi period.

After doing some research, you are correct that this photograph was taken after the war. Leo Baerwald, whose image this was, fled the Nazis, immigrating to the United States in the early Nazi period. He had been an active member of this synagogue in Munich. After the war, he went back to Munich and took photographs of the devestated site, in the now-destroyed Munich. I am going to mention the mistake in the dating of these photographs to the administration here, and we will update these records in our catalog. Michael Simonson Leo Baeck Institute

Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (Full German name: Adelgunde Marie Auguste Therese Prinzessin von Bayern) (born 17 October 1870 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria; died 4 January 1958 in Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) was a Princess of Bavaria by birth and Princess of Hohenzollern through her marriage to William, Prince of Hohenzollern The marriage took place on 20 January 1915 in Munich. Her husband is here:

trialsanderrors: thanks for the information. We'll update the record with the additional information.

11 years later, after her marriage to Wilhelm/William at the age of 44:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm,_German_Crown_Prince
"Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst; 6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951), was the eldest child of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, and his consort Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. As Emperor Wilhelm's heir, he was the last German Crown Prince and Crown Prince of Prussia, until the abolition of the monarchy."
He married Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1905.
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