Editing Regensburg (section)

===Nazism and World War II===
[[File:Gedenkstein KZ-Aussenkommando Flossenbürg001.jpg|thumb|Memorial to the victims of the local subcamp of the [[Flossenbürg concentration camp]]]]
The Jewish community was persecuted after the [[Nazi Party]] came to power in Germany in 1933, many Jews fled in the following years, and some were also expelled to [[Poland]]; thanks, however, to a Polish-German agreement they were allowed to return to the city.<ref name=yv>{{cite web|url=https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/valley/regensburg/nazi_regime.asp|title=Regensburg During the Holocaust. The Community of Regensburg in the Early Years of the Nazi Regime|website=Yad Vashem|access-date=15 August 2020}}</ref> On November 9, 1938, during the [[Kristallnacht]], the [[Regensburg Synagogue]] and several Jewish homes and stores were destroyed, and around 220 Jews were arrested, some were also deported to the [[Dachau concentration camp]].<ref name=yv/> During [[World War II]], many Jews emigrated to various countries, and in 1942, over 200 Jews were deported either to [[Piaski, Świdnik County|Piaski]] in [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German-occupied Poland]] or the [[Theresienstadt Ghetto]] in [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|German-occupied Czechoslovakia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/valley/regensburg/during_ww2.asp|title=Regensburg During the Holocaust. The Regensburg Community During World War II|website=Yad Vashem|access-date=15 August 2020}}</ref> In the final months of World War II, in March and April 1945, the [[Regensburg subcamp]] of the [[Flossenbürg concentration camp]] was located in the city, with 460 [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced laborers]] of various nationalities, 40 of whom died.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/satellite-camps/regensburg|title=Regensburg Subcamp|website=KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg|access-date=15 August 2020}}</ref>

Regensburg was home to both a [[Messerschmitt Bf 109]] aircraft factory and an oil refinery, which were bombed by the Allies on August 17, 1943, in the [[Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission]], and on February 5, 1945, during the [[Oil Campaign of World War II]]. Although both targets were badly damaged, Regensburg itself suffered little damage from the Allied [[strategic bombing during World War II|strategic bombing campaign]], and the nearly intact medieval city centre is listed as a [[World Heritage Site|UNESCO World Heritage Site]]. The city's most important cultural loss was that of the [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] church of [[Obermünster]], which was destroyed in a March 1945 air raid and was not rebuilt (the [[bell tower|belfry]] survived). Also, Regensburg's slow economic recovery after the war ensured that historic buildings were not torn down and replaced by newer ones. When the upswing in restoration{{clarify|date=August 2019}} reached Regensburg in the late 1960s, the prevailing mindset had turned in favour of preserving the city's heritage.