Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction

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The pictures were taken by Nazi photographers during the pogrom in the city of Nuremberg and the nearby town of Fürth. They wound up in the possession of a Jewish-American serviceman who was deployed to Germany during the second world war. How he obtained the photos is uncertain; he never talked about them to his family. As expected, this was a sobering but enlightening read. It was filled with first-person accounts of the night of Kristallnacht, and of the actions taken by the Nazi party, "regular" Germans, and other countries in the months and years following. Some of the information was new to me. The book contains maps showing the towns throughout Europe where synagogues were destroyed. That was heartbreaking to see.

Posso solo dire che l'ho amato, tantissimo. E quanto sono importanti testimonianze come queste, per ricordare e soprattutto per non silenziare mai quelle Voci. Deem, James M. Kristallnacht: the Nazi terror that began the Holocaust (2012) for secondary schools. onlineI did not know there were several countries who gave refuge to Jews. These countries are India, Turkey, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil (only took Catholics who were from Jewish ancestry), Cyprus, Kenya, Trinidad, and Malta. Shanghai, China took the most Jewish refugees. All of the countries had strong limits of how many and who they took. This reason is noted for me because it is something I learned new in the book. Herschel Grynszpan carried a revolver and thoughts of revenge with him as he walked through the streets of Paris on the morning of November 7, 1938. The 17-year-old German refugee had just learned that his Polish-Jewish parents, along with thousands of other Jews, had been herded into boxcars and deported from Germany. From the day Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, anti-Semitism had become encoded in the governmental policies of Nazi Germany. For years, Jews experienced state-sponsored discrimination and persecution, and Grynszpan had seen enough.

Martin Gilbert tells the story by making it real by recounting the experiences of survivors and descendants He writes of the occasional heroes who risked their lives to save others; the diplomats who ignored their governments' instructions and issued visas to allow people to escape and the ordinary people who did their best to hide Jewish neighbours from the Gestapo. Minutes centered Healthy Buildings coauthor Joe Allen’s research in a feature story on how indoor air systems continue to be crucial to curbing the spread of viral disease. How did the events of Kristallnacht compare to previous anti-Jewish actions and violence in Germany under the Nazis? The Nazi regime expanded and radicalized measures aimed at removing Jews entirely from German economic and social life in the forthcoming years. The regime moved eventually toward policies of forced emigration, and finally toward the realization of a Germany “free of Jews” ( judenrein) by deportation of the Jewish population “to the East.” Göring, who was in favor of expropriating the property of the Jews rather than destroying it as had happened in the pogrom, directly complained to Sicherheitspolizei Chief Heydrich immediately after the events: "I'd rather you had done in two-hundred Jews than destroy so many valuable assets!" ( "Mir wäre lieber gewesen, ihr hättet 200 Juden erschlagen und hättet nicht solche Werte vernichtet!"). [48] Göring met with other members of the Nazi leadership on 12 November to plan the next steps after the riot, setting the stage for formal government action. In the transcript of the meeting, Göring said,This was a heartbreaking and salutary book to read. Last year it was the 80th anniversary of Kristellnacht or the Night of Broken Glass. This is a well written well researched book but as Holocaust survivors begin to die it must be kept alive in peoples minds. Gilbert knowledgeably describes the chaos as Jews tried to escape from Germany to anywhere that would accept them. Germany wanted to purge itself of them and ‘Time to leave’ was the often quoted phrase. Some countries took many, some took none. The list of countries that refused to accept them and their reasons for doing so made for chilling reading. German State Archives, Potsdam, quoted in Rita Thalmann and Emmanuel Feinermann, Crystal night, 9–10 November 1938, pp. 33, 42. The November Pogrom (Kristallnacht)". Beth Shalom National Holocaust Centre and Museum. 14 December 2016. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019 . Retrieved 1 July 2019. The November Pogrom also has another name, Kristallnacht, which means "Crystal Night". This Night of Crystal refers to the Night of Broken Glass...