Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction

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Proposals were made to settle Jewish in British Guiana, Brazil, Madagascar, Uganda and Tanganyika but all were abandoned.

Windows of shops owned by Jews which were broken during a coordinated anti-Jewish demonstration in Berlin, known as Kristallnacht, on 10 November 1938. Nazi authorities turned a blind eye as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed storefronts with hammers, leaving the streets covered in pieces of smashed windows. Ninety-one Jews were killed, and 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps." [9] Jaime Herndon finished her MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia, after leaving a life of psychosocial oncology and maternal-child health work. She is a writer, editor, and book reviewer who drinks way too much coffee. She is a new-ish mom, so the coffee comes in extra handy. The Fortnite Holocaust Museum, a virtual museum based inside the videogame Fortnite, is set to feature a display featuring the Kristallnacht. [97] See also [ edit ]

Aftermath

The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA ( Sturmabteilung : commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth.

Foreign countries issued statements of condemnation. Hugh Wilson, the American ambassador to Germany, was summoned home for “consultations” and never returned. In spite of the words, though, most countries, including the United States, kept their restrictive immigration policies against European Jews in place, and there were few ramifications for the Nazis. JudenVermoegersabgabe" (The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies)". Archived from the original on 21 April 2006 . Retrieved 4 May 2006. Anyway, this brutal account lasts for a little over half the book. What follows is the attempt by many of the Jews to get out of Germany. It was not such an easy thing, as the Nazis were hardly helpful, and other European countries argued over refugee quotas. This part of the book is also quite sad, but it is punctuated by some real heroes, such as Captain Frank Foley, the British Passport Control Officer in Berlin (also a spy), and Dr. Feng Shan Ho, the Chinese Consul General in Vienna. Both men would work night and day to help Jews to emigrate to both Britain and China. They saved thousands. And there were others (the "Righteous" as Gilbert calls them) that history has also forgotten. As the window to escape closes, the beginnings of the Final Solution start to reveal themselves. Explore the range of reactions to the violence of Kristallnacht among the German people. What pressures and motivations may have influenced their choice to participate, to help the victims, or to turn away? That night 91 Jews were murdered, and 25,000-30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps.Goldstein, Joseph (1995). Jewish History in Modern Times. Sussex Academic Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-1-898723-06-6. During the pogrom, some 30,000 Jewish males were rounded up and taken to concentration camps. This was the first time Nazi officials made massive arrests of Jews specifically because they were Jews, without any further cause for arrest. Today we are faced with Jew-hatred on a scale as great as that of the Nazis in the form of hatred of Israel. Yad Vashem said the photos help demonstrate how the German public was aware of what was going on, and that the violence was part of a meticulously coordinated pogrom carried out by Nazi authorities. They even brought in photographers to document the atrocities.