Kristallnacht- German pogrom of 1938

[rosie94101]

The reason the Nazi's performed Kristallnacht was because a Jewish teenager named Herschel Grynszpan shot a German Embassy member in Paris for the horrible treatment his family was recieving. The Nazi's sought vengeance by destroying everything Jewish in Germany and Austria.

[tirnaog09]

The London Times reported on these events by saying...

''No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of blackguardly assaults on defenceless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday.''

No amount of revisionism or neo nazi lies will ever erase the stain the Nazis left on history. RIP all innocent victims of blind ignorant hatred.

[as0the0shadow0dance]

Does anybody knows how the violin concert calls in the begining? I'ts a beautiful sad concerto.

[soliduslupi]

Today it the same date in the year, i apologise in name of the humaniti.

[MattTrippSteelers]

I think this is a very interesting topic to study :)

[divofan]

horrible ,the jews must have been terrified.Can,t begin to imagine how thw had to live in those years.

[TheHuntForTheTruth]

Does any one know of why the night of the broken glass ever took place? Let me guess the answers, because the Germans hated the Jews and did it for no reason other then that.

[ChromatopelmaDude]

Adolf Hitler had a rough, lonely childhood. He had trouble with jews and was mocked, so he started building hatred towards jews in general, instead of just the people's personality. This he spread in speeches and through Joseph Goebbels (the minister of propaganda), who was the one, who planned the Kristallnacht.

The reason Germans and Italians bought all this, was because Hitler spoke with passion and was full of praise towards his and Mussolini's people. This fueled all of this.

[BlauerBooo]

A latent antisemitism was traditionally widespread all over Europe since the middle ages - not only in Germany. But with the Nazis this antisemitism came one step (or two, or three..) further: It was part of their world view dividing humans into races of no or high value. Their massive propaganda made many Germans, who already just did not like Jews, believe this. Step by step measures were taken to exclude them from public life. These measurements weren't regarded positively by most Germans.

[BlauerBooo]

Also if they did not directly like Jews, they weren't once hatres who wanted them to die. The "Reichspogromnacht" (this is the neutral term - the other one is the Nazis' one) was the first time that excesses of this largeness happened. The regime wanted to test how far they could go - and realised that still most Germans did not like this agressive method. Many Germans helped their jewish neighbours by hiding them and so on - after all they were German themselves.

[BlauerBooo]

Nevertheless there wasn't also any opposition against these actions, which would be important to be mentioned. People said, this is horrible, but also did not want to have anything to do with it (the majority). Only minorities actively helped or persecuted the Jews.

So this day marks the beginning of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews had to die. That's why it is remembered today and that's why the Day of German unity is celebrated on 10/3 (official unity) and not 11/9 (fall of the wall)

[MyAragorn1]

Actually, we are learning about this in History class. Although your mostly right, a jew had killed a nazi official or officer or some highly ranked person, so the nazi's retaliated with the day of broken glass

[toli96]

there was a man whose father had been deported, after 27 years, to Poland his son was in paris at the time and he shot a german embassador in the embassy to punish the germans for taking his father from him, the germans then punished ALL jews by putting Kristallnacht into effect.

hope this helped:)

vicky

[SuckMyMuffler]

Nazis were a disgrace to all of humanity

[Filadelfiagemeente]

On behalf of Christianity..... I am sorry. Sorry for the Kristallnacht but also for the christian theology that created this situation.

[bunboosh]

thank you brother

[chocolatesaltyballs3]

Its a good thing this is just a story or else it might be scary.... Oh wait....

[britishclub]

Look at the people looking and laughing in the film at the beginning. These were the same people who later claimed they didn´t know. I knew someone who lived right next to Belsen concentration camp and claimed she knew nothing!

They all knew everything!

[reginaDexant]

Crystal Night, the beginning of the holocaust. The most documented attrocity in history those who would deny it secretly delight in it and are liars and murderers. No defense.

[MacJaxonManOfAction]

Amen to that. Long may the egregious crimes of the nazis be taught to every child who sits in a schoolroom. And any deniers of the Holocaust, be they Catholic bishop, disaffected yob, or plain anti-semite, let them recant or be shunned by all. The Holocaust is indisputable and no-one's fantasy.

[jainituos]

Let's pray that the Humankind laern from all this history, because we, as humans, will be unable to escape these memories forever.

Especially from the Nazi's atrocities

[gome88]

hey the picture at 1:23 was in my history book

[Pokerek1965]

Dziękuję za to video...

That was horrible time...

I'm so sorry...

I used to have some Jewish friends who were made to leave Poland in 1968...

Circle....Sorry Danusia, sorry Jurek, sorry Krysia...

[Yesica1993]

How sad. This is so difficult to watch.

Unfortunately, this will happen again. Look at what is happening in Europe even now. Look at the bias in the media and world opinion when Israel dares to defend itself against Hamas.

It's horrifying, how the world does not care.

[samipso]

What do you mean with that?

[SHMUJEW]

humanity learns nothing, in 1968, the jew killer yassir arafat came up with a ficticious people and got the blessing of the world community to kill jews

[lenashulman]

Long before Kristallnacht Jews in Germany experienced a "social death." They were openly discriminated against in schools, offices, markets, and hospitals. I suggest reading Marion A. Kaplan's Between Dignity and Despair to find out just how involved the German population was. Nazi propaganda did not create antisemitism, it simply helped to justify the populations innate prejudices against Jews.

[lenashulman]

Traditionally Holocaust history has focused on the Nazis as the main perpetrators, but lately there is increasing research on the role of the "collaborators," especially in Poland and Lithuania, where people butchered their neighbors. If Jewish survivors often feel guilt for having made "bad decisions" and losing their loved ones in ghettos (an irrational, yet understandable regret), then certainly Germans should not make excuses for their direct or indirect involvement.

[newmark401]

Many Germans did not look the other way, they were very aware of what was going on and did not agree with it, but couldn't do anything to prevent it because they had no power and knew that resistance could lead to imprisonment or worse. You cannot blame a whole people for the crimes of a corrupt government, if that is the right word.

[tinelinebine]

KRISTALLNACHT is totally the wrong word!

This word used the Nazis for Propaganda and today it is only allowed to say 'the so-called Kristallnacht'. Stand up for clarification

[swedgoy]

For the jewish victims: Kadish.

[DCYahwehsrvant]

Never again! Never forget!

[shokobo23]

Never Again! We shall NEVER forget!

[historicrecord]

Yes - today marks 70 years when Nazi anti-semitic policy turned violent . It was a major escalation which would lead only 3 years later to the implementation of the Final solution or Holocaust.

[rolligeswiesel]

Today 70 years Crystal Night, 70 years of shame.

[RachTrinity]

God bless Israel..as a Christian I stand with you always. I shall never let you down and for all I can do, I pray my country, and this world never dismiss the evil again.

[syropoulo12]

who could ever let such a bad man into power, especially with all these bad intentions against the jews.

[Liolar43]

This video makes me feel so sad. =( It's a disgrace, that the Jews had been living in harmony for thousands of years, and Adolf comes and commits genocide. What can anyone do to deserve that? I hope Satan has a special place for Hitler in Hell. R.I.P those 6 million Jews.

[AlexandraLara]

That is so sad! :(

[FACEmaPUNANY1hunnit]

What kills me the most is that, BenAligator, your right, it can happen anywhere. It is still happening in some places now. R.I.P. the 6 million Jews that Hitler erased. Adolph, Satan has a special spot for you in his mansion. Rest in Shit!!

[huntman1412]

When will Kristallnacht 2008 happen in America?

[mustwinder]

Excuse my ignorance but what is the song that used at the start of the video? I remember it from Schindler's List as well. Certainly not a happy one, but it creates the proper setting.

[BenAliGtor]

This happened not in a nation of uneducated peasants, but in the most industrialized and educated nation on earth-the nation of Schiller, Goethe, Beethoven and Bach. A nation that had tolerated Jews and encouraged their assimilation for centuries.A nation where Jews were as German as their Gentile neighbors.

The real issue is: if it could happen THERE, where could it NOT happen?

[mustwinder]

Well said.

[ronvonhesse]

Hitler sought to destroy the German Jewish People and now only a mere thread remains of us. But in Germany today many German Jewish people are back in living in Germany. Our Unique culture is over 1000 years old.

[NLS510]

It would be hard for me to live in Germany. My relatives had to flee in 1935. Hitler sought to destroy ALL Jews everywhere, but many ignorant bigots either deny it or celebrate it.

[Elosani]

jesus was just a normal man like everybody

[TimBouman]

Racisme at his top verry verry sad.

[8cccpeevostokzempf]

Read the Gospel according to St. John which Bach set to music. All the little Protestant heads being packed with Christ-killer Jew hate for centuries before the pustle burst. Whose bed were Pius 12th's slippers parked under while this was starting up & going on?

[Mikey84]

You forgot that Jesus himself was a Jew too :)

[uberspecialfizz]

nicely pointed out :)

[vobiscum2007]

Plain ignorance, superbia, arrogance, overbearing pride, disdain, fatuity, frailty, imbecility, inferiority complex commit these acts. I'm forgetting a lot more.

[TimmyD01]

pretty much

[klausmann111]

ISRAEL the only alternative for the jewish people other way is loose & waste the time

[Tommy12435]

It also amazed me on how the Great Western World turn their back to this even, if the delegate in the Evian Conference had work out a solution and the "Great" nation of France, US, and Britian allowed the Jewish refugee to enter thier country, this tragic will be a lot less tragic...

"Evil Prevail when good man fail to act" (Edward Burge)

[OneLitFirefly]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

[Tommy12435]

Today is the 69th year anniversary of this faithful night... It just amazed me how the people of Germany can just stood by and watch as their frends and neighbor were beaten, their properties destroy and did nothing, or even worse joined in...

[Amaranth23]

SHAME ON YOU GERMANY

[Tomfummel]

Too bad barely anything has changed since then. We still treat eachother in the same horrible way.

[ACOstud]

As Christians we must learn from the terrible

mistakes that were made by keeping silent when

such threats and worse, actions were made against God's people. NEVER AGAIN! We must stand

and speak out against the threats being made

TODAY!

[39rc6cf]

Well said. Beautifully expressed. You are what Christianity's about.

[jimmyhd1969]

Germany deserved to have it's cities destroyed in ww2. It was devine wrath as Germany destroyed Jewish Temples.

[39rc6cf]

It also worked this way aside from Kristallnacht. The Nazis liked to burn books--to make large pyres of great literature by both Jew and Gentile. The Nazis burned people, sometimes even alive, in their extermination camps. So when I read about how lousy we were burning up German cities during the war, I always wax philosophical.

[newmexicoboy]

maybe they should not have been in germany.

[harveybirdman001]

where should they have gone all of the other countries reject immigrants especially jewish ones.

[matisforever]

thats right, the countries didnt help before it started, nor during. they turned a blind eye a peaked back only periodicly to watch our people die.

[RHutton2710]

That's not entirely accurate: the Netherlands and Denmark both took as many refugees as they could, even to the point of their own detriment. See Arthur Morse's 'While Six Million Died'.

[jhonmcqie]

i realy hope this never happens again this is very sad

[jhonmcqie]

it shows how humans can be worse than animals

[mchazan414]

Excellent video!

[HominisNocturna]

Holocaust denial is illegal in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland.

It could seem that we spaniards didn't suffered nazism and fascism.. shame on us.

[LetItFloat]

Exteremely powerful! what a footage! With such evidences I don't think even satan himself can deny Holocaust.

[39rc6cf]

Exteremely powerful! what a footage! With such evidences I don't think even satan himself can deny Holocaust.

==============================­==================== Or then again, it takes a Satan to deny the Holocaust.

[DexterHollandrulez06]

powerful movie

[DexterHollandrulez06]

too many people stayed silent!!!

[odinindohouse]

not to make a point for nazis, the ignorance to what happened to jews during the WW2 was a global one. they showed in a american documentary, that the death camps were feed last by the allys, knowing, the killing will go on 'til the last hour of the nazi regime.

[CognaSith]

Really Good vid but had some sound issues, didn't alway come through good, stopped and skipped

[nablusi]

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