Kristallnacht, the night of terror, The Night of Broken Glass. Homes, businesses, lives and entire livelihoods were lost. The Nazi soldiers marched through the streets, hundreds of them. Some of them didn’t show any emotion, they looked menacing. The soldiers had weapons of total devastation at their fingertips. There was a Resistance that had charged from nowhere. From that point on the Nazi’s weren’t having it. They fought back they actually killed most of the people that had attacked them. When people heard the gunfire many ran and hide, but there’s always those few that wanted to investigate. Well those who investigated were captured. Eventually hundreds were being caught or killed if they tried to fight back.
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“Kristallnacht, literally, 'Night of Crystal,' is often referred to as the 'Night of Broken Glass,” (USHMM 1). The streets of Jewish communities were littered with broken glass from vandalized buildings. The German officials announced that Kristallnacht had erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment. Sadly the Jewish were forced to pay for all damage done to property during Kristallnacht. Although the atrocities perpetrated during the Night of Broken Glass did arouse outrage in Western Europe and the United States. “Broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses were plundered and destroyed during the violence,”(USHMM 1). It owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the …show more content…
Kristallnacht' provided the Nazi government with an opportunity, at last to totally exterminate all Jewish civilians from German public life. The official German position on these events, which were clearly orchestrated by Goebbels. He stated, “I have received a letter written on the Fuehrer's orders requesting that the Jewish question be now, ” (Holocaust Research Project 1). Three days later, on November 12, Hermann Goering called a meeting of the top Nazi leadership to assess the damage done on this night. It was decided at the meeting that, since Jews were to blame for these
On this dreaded night hundreds …show more content…
“Kristallnacht, literally, 'Night of Crystal,' is often referred to as the 'Night of Broken Glass,” (USHMM 1). The streets of Jewish communities were littered with broken glass from vandalized buildings. The German officials announced that Kristallnacht had erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment. Sadly the Jewish were forced to pay for all damage done to property during Kristallnacht. Although the atrocities perpetrated during the Night of Broken Glass did arouse outrage in Western Europe and the United States. “Broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses were plundered and destroyed during the violence,”(USHMM 1). It owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the …show more content…
Kristallnacht' provided the Nazi government with an opportunity, at last to totally exterminate all Jewish civilians from German public life. The official German position on these events, which were clearly orchestrated by Goebbels. He stated, “I have received a letter written on the Fuehrer's orders requesting that the Jewish question be now, ” (Holocaust Research Project 1). Three days later, on November 12, Hermann Goering called a meeting of the top Nazi leadership to assess the damage done on this night. It was decided at the meeting that, since Jews were to blame for these