Kristallnacht

“What commonalities are seen in genocide we have studied”? The commonality I have seen in genocide that they all have a common goal, which is to eliminate the race or races that are believed to be inferior. Examples of past genocides are the Holocaust, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Bosnian. However, for genocide to occur eight steps must proceed according to Gregory H. Stanton. Subsequently, genocides do not happen in a day; they take months if not years to prepare for a mass killing to eventually…

was happening inside the nation, and During the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, all anti-Semitic propaganda was removed until the conclusion of the games (Rossol). Concurrently, Jewish owned businesses are boycotted. e. 30,000 Jews are arrested on Kristallnacht, synagogues are destroyed, and Jews must wear yellow stars of David as of 1938 (this replaces their driver’s licenses). Schools become segregated, businesses and luxuries are taken away, and curfew hours go into effect (Rosenfeld). f. In…

were being abused and killed by the Nazi Party. If America joined earlier, the death of 6 million Jews would have been decreased or non-existent today. Americans were never oblivious about the abuse on Jews. “Although the anti-Semitic violence of Kristallnacht was widely covered in the American press at the time, it still moved few Americans to reconsider their isolationist stance” (“Diplomacy in World War II” 3). America knew about the Jews being abused in a cruel way and still wanted to be…

and pulled out men, made them wash floors, all sorts of things.”13 This violence escalated when Herschel Grynszpan attempted to assassinate Ernst vom Rath in Paris in November of 1938, resulting in the nationwide November Pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht. During this, Nazis “[destroyed] synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses; the police would not intervene and those involved would not be arrested.”14 The compliance of both the German people and the government on destroying Jewish religious…

“Aryan” society as well as to abolish Jews ' political, legal, and civil rights. The persecution of the Jews began systematically almost as soon as Hitler came to power, taking form in anti-Jewish boycotts, anti-Jewish legislation and escalating in ‘Kristallnacht’ A.K.A the night of the broken glass, a violent anti-Jewish pogrom in November,…

citizen that owned a weapon back then to purchase a license, in 1938 Adolf Hitler signed a new gun control law, which denied firearm ownership to enemies of the state (Halbrook 2). This paved the way for a historic night now known to be called, Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass). Everyone deemed an enemy of the state had their weapons confiscated therefore; the Jews were left unable to defend themselves from the violence they would endure for the next seven…

Absolutism is the One and Only History abounds with tales of destructive dictatorships and the failed democracies. Which is better: governments with casualties or casual governments? Absolutism is a more expedient form of government because it is quick and painless; it provides the guidance and boundaries to keep countries and citizens out of turmoil; democracy is slow, messy, and ineffective. In the United States of America, a representative democracy, Congress takes long to do little. The…

Evan Olson Period: 6 Mr. Lone/ Mr.Paulin Book Report: Inside the Vicious Heart One quote I found that really grabbed my attention was, “It was though we had penetrated at last to the center of the black, to the very crawling inside of the vicious heart. I had found this interesting because it really sums up the entire book in a few lines. It shows how the American’s felt toward the Nazi’s and the horrible acts they did. It also explains how the Nazi’s were viewed as “heartless” or that they…

immorality by both sides of the war was appalling. Both Japan and Germany performed acts of genocide. Nazi Germany’s rationale for the Holocaust was racial purity and elimination of the Jewish ‘enemy’. The justification hailed in the Nazi press for Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938 was, “A spontaneous wave of righteous indignation throughout Germany, as the result of the cowardly Jewish murder of Third Secretary von Rath in the Germany embassy at Paris.” (Kinney, p.…

Nazi persecution of the Jews became significantly more extreme between 1933 and 1945 due to numerous factors. These included the things such as: the breakout of WW, effective propaganda and cumulative radicalisation. However some causes were more significant than others, for example WW2 was more effective in increasing the severity in which Jews were persecuted than propaganda, as the Second World War created the chaos that allowed more extreme actions to take place, whilst propaganda was…