 The most famous stores are the ones in Nuremberg (Aufseßplatz) (built 1925/26, demolished), Stuttgart (→ Schocken Stuttgart, 1926–28, demolished 1960) and Chemnitz (1927–30) designed by architect Erich Mendelsohn.All three can be seen as milestones in modern architecture.After the rise of Nazism, Salman Schocken was politically forced to sell his department stores to the Merkur AG (so-called "Aryanisation").