Kristallnacht- German pogrom of 1938

Die Kristallnacht, also known as die Reichskristallnacht (literally Imperial Crystal Night), die Pogromnacht and inEnglish known as the Night of Broken Glass, was a massive nationwide pogrom in Germany and Austria on the night of November 9 1938, (and into the early hours of the following day). It was directed at Jewish citizens throughout the country and was the beginning of the Holocaust.
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[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[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)

[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]

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.

[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.

[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.