In 1934 , Hall was officially named '' Schwäbisch Hall '' . During the Third Reich a Luftwaffe air base was built at Hessental . During Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938 , local Nazis burned the synagogue in Steinbach and devastated shops and houses of Jewish citizens . Approximately 40 Jewish citizens of Schwäbisch Hall fell victim to the Holocaust in extermination camps in Eastern Europe . In 1944 a concentration camp was established next to the train station Hall-Hessental . The train station at Hall was targeted by an American air raid on February 23 , 1945 , but the devastation was mostly limited to the suburbs of St. Katharina and Unterlimpurg . The town was occupied by US Army troops on April 17 , 1945 without serious resistance ; though several buildings were destroyed or damaged , the historical old town suffered comparatively little
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Schwäbisch Hall