During the bombing of Berlin on 22 November 1943, the Swedish legation was completely destroyed and burned to the ground. Only the newly built bunker in the legation garden was undamaged. It was then moved to Rauchstraße 25 in Tiergarten, with postal address Altdöbern, Kreis Calan. After the bombing, the bulk of the legation was evacuated to Alt-Döbern, a castle about 120 km southwest of Berlin that Minister Arvid Richert had rented in August 1943 in the face of the threat of the aerial bombing campaing. The embassy's premises were now unusable and legation were allowed to rent a house at Rauchstraße 23 for the Berlin chanery. Most of the tasks were handled in Alt-Döbern. At the beginning of April 1945, the Federal Foreign Office was evacuated to Bad Gastein and the foreign missions were offered to accompany, with the Swedish legation choosing to stay in Berlin to protect Swedish lifes and Swedish property. The reason was that there were a relatively large number of Swedish citizens in the city, who did not want or could not take refuge in Sweden.