Kristallnacht and the holocaust
What would you do if you had been striped of your human rights and was the subject of violence just because of your religion. Before the tragic event of Kristallnacht, in 1933 Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of germany. After that Jews had been stripped of their legal rights and subject to violent attacks for the five years leading to november 7,1938. Which is when a Polish-Jewish student named Herschel Grynszpan shot the German diplomat, who had died two days later. The Nazi minister for public propaganda then seized the opportunity to rile Hitler’s supporters. The minister then urged a group of Nazi storm troopers to carry out violent attacks against the Jews that would be staged to appear as “spontaneous demonstrations”. Kristallnacht paved the way to the holocaust. Kristallnacht sped up the pace of the nazis …show more content…
During kristallnacht over 1,000 synagogues were burned down and damaged, 7,500 jewish owned businesses were ransacked, and at least 91 jews were killed. Rioters also destroyed jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and even went as far as to damage jewish cemeteries. Many germans believed that the jews were the reason for losing world war 1, and saw the assassination of the german diplomat as a way to get revenge.
The final reason is that this event marked a turning point for the nazis anti-jewish policies. Before kristallnacht the laws were geared toward restricting jews. During 1938, the year of kristallnacht, the laws were made to identify jews. For example jews wearing the star of david. Then in the year fallowing, there was a law made to take jews from their homes “without reason and notice”. There is a clear change in the severity of the laws and there is reason to believe, that after the events of kristallnacht the german public was more willing to accept more severe
What would you do if you had been striped of your human rights and was the subject of violence just because of your religion. Before the tragic event of Kristallnacht, in 1933 Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of germany. After that Jews had been stripped of their legal rights and subject to violent attacks for the five years leading to november 7,1938. Which is when a Polish-Jewish student named Herschel Grynszpan shot the German diplomat, who had died two days later. The Nazi minister for public propaganda then seized the opportunity to rile Hitler’s supporters. The minister then urged a group of Nazi storm troopers to carry out violent attacks against the Jews that would be staged to appear as “spontaneous demonstrations”. Kristallnacht paved the way to the holocaust. Kristallnacht sped up the pace of the nazis …show more content…
During kristallnacht over 1,000 synagogues were burned down and damaged, 7,500 jewish owned businesses were ransacked, and at least 91 jews were killed. Rioters also destroyed jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and even went as far as to damage jewish cemeteries. Many germans believed that the jews were the reason for losing world war 1, and saw the assassination of the german diplomat as a way to get revenge.
The final reason is that this event marked a turning point for the nazis anti-jewish policies. Before kristallnacht the laws were geared toward restricting jews. During 1938, the year of kristallnacht, the laws were made to identify jews. For example jews wearing the star of david. Then in the year fallowing, there was a law made to take jews from their homes “without reason and notice”. There is a clear change in the severity of the laws and there is reason to believe, that after the events of kristallnacht the german public was more willing to accept more severe