looking the Neckar.
In the Nazi era, the T�bingen 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, T�bingen was the capital of the newly-formed state of W�rttemberg-Hohenzollern, before the state of Baden-W�rttemberg was created by merging Baden, W�rttemberg-Baden and W�rttemberg-Hohenzollern. The French troops had a garrison stationed in the south of the city until the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.
In the 1960s, T�bingen was one of the centres of the German student movement and the Protests of 1968 and has ever since shaped left and green political views. Some radicalized T�bingen students supported the leftist Rote Armee Fraktion terrorist group, with active member Gudrun Ensslin, a local and a T�bingen student from 1960 to 1963, joining the group in 1968.
Although it is largely impossible to notice such things today, as recently as the 1950s T�bingen was a very socio-economically divided city, with poor local farmers and tradesman living along the Stadtgraben (City Canal) and students and academics residing around the Alte Aula and the Burse, the old university buildings. There, hanging on the Cottahaus a sign commemorates Goethe's stay of a few weeks while visiting his publisher. The German tendency to memorialize every minor presence of its historical greats (comparable to the statement "Washington slept here" in the United States) is parodied on the building next door. This simple building, once a dormitory, features a plain sign with the words "Hier kotzte Goethe" (lit.: "Goethe puked here").
In the second half of the 20th century, T�bingen's administrative area was extended beyond what is now called the "core town" to include several outlying small towns and villages. Most notable
