Kristallnacht

Michael Biehl and Stefan Yukash​ Kristallnacht It is called Kristallnacht because all the destruction left so much broken glass that two thirds of the glass equaled a years worth of glass production of all of Germany.Kristallnacht or better known as the Night of Broken Glass. In November 9 1938 Nazis broke in to several synagogues, Jewish businesses and homes. At the end of the night there were hundreds of people who were broke and homeless that night became known as Kristallnacht. This all started with the assination of Ernst Vom Rath a German diplomat. He was assniated by a Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan. Herschel was outraged because he and 17,000 other Jew's were expeled from Reich.This was all done at the hands of Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels two high ranking Nazis officials and the S.S. Over the next few days stormtroopers killed an estamate of 91 Jews. But actually over 600 died. 91 were murdered, the other hundreds comited suicide.The Nazis baned Jews from public transportation, schools, and hospitals. Grynszpan had been freed with no trial because one of the men there said he killed Von Rath. Because Von Rath were friends and it was an accident. During that same night Nazis leaders gathered toghther to talk about Hitlers unscussesful takeover of the Bavarian goverment. Some time later Joseph Goebbels sent some Nazis out to capture Jew's because the Jewish community owed a debt to the Nazis for the assination of Vom Rath. the debt was set at one billion reichsmarks as a payment. That is why they desteroid all the homes, stores.and synagogues. Some German's not the Nazis set up Jewish emigration offices to help Jews leave Central and Eastern Europe. The response to Kristallnacht to no- Jewish Germans was varied in diffrent towns some helped Jew's but others went aside and watched the horriable events takeplace. Other's took part in riots and crimes. A bishop's argueed that Martin Luther laid down a "blueprint " for Kristallnacht in his short book On the "Jews and There Lies"from 1583. The Nazis gained what they wanted such as takeing Jewish belongings to provide for war, seperation of Jew's from Germans, and confiscation of Jewish owned weapons. It is said that Kristallnacht was the "ignition" of the Nazi insanity over the Jews.

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