Night Of Broken Research Paper

Kristallnacht was a series of raids, burnings and violence set off by the death of a German official killed by a teenage Jew on November 9th and 10th, 1938. This death enraged the Nazi Party officials who encouraged the violence by giving instructions to local officials. This lead to social expectations of the war. People, especially German soldiers were under the impression this event was not wrong and believed anything that came to them from their commanders. Some of the instructions given to local officials included making sure that non-jewish people and property was protected and not affected by the violence. After the Night of Broken Glass the party announced it was a spontaneous act by the public and Hitler Youth. Their actions over the course of those two days included, burning 250 synagogues and destroyed over 7,000 businesses in almost all places that German’s were stationed at the time. Also they didn’t hesitate to kill dozens of the Jews, and …show more content…
The act was so thoughtless that the logical side of things only came after. The non-jewish people and businesses would have taken the blow for this if the officials had not tried to blame the violence on the jews themselves. They made the jewish community pay for all the damages and then also responsible for their own ruined businesses.
The Night of Broken Glass is what brought us Max in The Book Thief. Max had experienced Kristallnacht, but he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape even though he was given the option to hide. This lead him to the Hubermann family and Max was a huge part of Liesel's life. He wrote a book for her which encouraged her to write and helped take some of the weight off her shoulders about her nightmares because he had them as well. Without this violent event Max wouldn’t have even met