Kristallnacht

synagogue alight. As the Nazis destroyed centuries of Jewish culture, thoughts of a pleasant future for Fürth’s Jewry went up in smoke (Confino 1-3). The heinous events in Fürth were repeated that night in countless towns and cities across Germany. Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, was a night of murder, destruction, and horror. It occurred between the late hours of November 9th and the early hours of November 10th. Dressed as civilians, Hitler's secret police rounded up, arrested,…

Protection of German blood and honour, protection of hereditary health, and Reich citizenship 10. What was ‘Kristallnacht’? What was the significance of this event to the Holocaust? Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass- November 9, 1938- Germans were angry because an important German leader was killed by a Jewish teenager (nov. 7). Stats: 250 synagogues burnt down, 7,000 Jewish business 's destroyed…

According to the German government, Kristallnacht, or crystal night, came about because of an event that occurred in Paris on November 7, 1938. This event being the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat, by a young Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan. Herschel’s reasons for murdering Ernst vom Rath were that his parents had been among the thousands of Polish Jews forced out of Germany who were not allowed into Poland and that he wanted to bring worldwide attention to the terrible…

People being sent to a foreign land. Sons leaving friends and family behind. They fight for their homeland, with a sense of unquivering pride and courage. Fighting against an enemy as equal in power as they are, these soldiers protect the life of one another and of complete strangers. Strangers who fight against starvation, suffocation, and death, strangers whose very existence is being slowly eradicated all because the will of one man. The destruction of so many and so much are all the lasting…

undertaken by the British government to bring thousands of Jewish refugee children out of Nazi Germany and other parts of Europe such as Austria and Czechoslovakia which under Hitler’s control. The Kindertransports were necessitated mainly by the Kristallnacht or the “night of broken glass” visited by Nazi forces on German Jews.…

they owned and were sent to Poland to live. Poland’s lack of willingness to accept them into their country left them and countless others, in makeshift camps on the border. Hitler’s actions spurred Herschel’s revenge on the political regime. (Kristallnacht, 1) On the day of November 7th, 1938 he did something catastrophic that changed the pace of the future and how Hitler treated the Jews. Herschel fully intended on killing the German Ambassador to France. When he couldn’t find him, he set his…

After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, there was a major flee of Jews from Germany (“German Refugees”, 2016). With Germany taking over Austria, there was also a major increase in the Jews fleeing from Austria. 36,000 Jews left Germany and Austria in 1938…

This incident was known as The Night of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht. The Night of Broken Glass was one of the many brutal and tragic events that the Jews suffered through during Hitler’s power. Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues, schools, and lives were lost during this ferocious attack. Kristallnacht will forever be remembered as a night that will not be forgotten. Surprisingly, a seventeen year old boy was responsible for Kristallnacht. Herschel Grynszpan learned that his parent had been…

Thief Markus Zusak’s, The Book Thief, was expressed later into a film directed by Brain Percival’s, the film explores in which way the Jews were treated as inhuman creatures. The points I will be discussing are the Holocaust, the crystal night (Kristallnacht) and the burning of the books. Brian Percival’s has explored World War II in his film The Book Thief, within the film the holocaust played a small part, however, the holocaust was foreshadowed throughout the whole film. The holocaust was a…

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.…