After the November Pogrom in 1938 the Nazis closed the Temple , which had not been burnt but realised vandalism of its interior . Italiener emigrated to the United Kingdom . On 28 November 1940 the legal successor of the DIG , the Jewish Religious Association ( Jüdischer Religionsverband in Hamburg ) , was forced to sell the building for the ridiculous sum of ℛℳ 120,000 to the Colonial Office ( Kolonialamt ; a legally dependent subunit of Hamburg ) , which , however , did not realise its plans for the rebuild for its purposes
November Pogrom
Kristallnacht
Hamburg Temple