In the Nazi era , the Tübingen Synagogue was burned in the Kristallnacht on November 9 , 1938 . The Second World War left the city largely unscathed , mainly because of the peace initiative of a local doctor , Theodor Dobler . It was occupied by the French army and became part of the French occupational zone . From 1946 to 1952 , Tübingen was the capital of the newly formed state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern ( as ) , before the state of Baden-Württemberg was created by merging Baden , Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern . The French troops had a garrison stationed in the south of the city until the end of the Cold War in the 1990s
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Tübingen