Editing Karl Fiehler (section)

===Fiehler's End: Munich in ruins===

In the early afternoon of 30 April 1945, the first American soldiers, 27-year-old Lieutenant [[Wolfgang F. Robinow]] and his men approached Munich's central square ''"[[Marienplatz]]"''. With the surrender of the town hall the National Socialist dictatorship had definitely ended in Munich. Fiehler had already left the guildhall a long time before the occupation of Munich took place, without a struggle. On 4 May 1945, four days before the official end of [[World War II]] in Europe, the victorious American Forces reinstated Karl Scharnagl as Lord Mayor of the Bavarian capital.

Following the [[Holocaust]] Munich's Jewish life was almost extinct. Of the 12,000 Munich Jews before the Holocaust, 7,500 would flee from the Nazis just in time. Approximately 3,000 had been deported to concentration camps, almost half of these to Theresienstadt. Only 430 surviving Munich Jews returned to their home town in 1945.

In May 1945 the City of Munich counted the cost of the war, with 22,346 prisoners of war, 6,632 bomb war fatalities, approximately 15,000 wounded and about 300,000 homeless persons. By death, evacuation and exodus from the city the population had declined from 824,000 in 1939 to 479,000 in 1945. Ninety percent of Munich's historic Old Town had been destroyed and taking the city as a whole, fifty percent had been destroyed.

In January 1949 Karl Fiehler, who was married and had three daughters, was sentenced to two years in a labour camp, the confiscation of one-fifth of his property and a twelve-year employment ban after ''"Spruchkammerverfahren"'' ([[English language|English]]: ''"proceedings before [[denazification]] tribunals"''). However he did not have to serve the sentence because the previous three and a half years of his detention were credited to the term of his imprisonment. Fiehler died on 8 December 1969 in the village of [[Dießen am Ammersee|Dießen]] on the idyllic Lake Ammersee in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps.

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