Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction

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This was Kristallnacht, or “the night of broken glass.” It was a turning point, marking the change from “merely” anti-Semitic rhetoric and laws, to actual violent actions. The Holocaust didn’t happen in one fell swoop; Hitler slowly added more and more restrictions; started lying more and more; and kept on riling up his base. The Nazis built up to the mass round-ups, deportation, and mass murder of Jews, gay people, Roma, the disabled, and anyone who didn’t fit their ideal. Human rights atrocities don’t just happen overnight. It builds up gradually and then all at once. There are warning signs. It’s just a matter of whether people recognize the signs, take them seriously for what they are, and decide to take action against them.

Dr. Arthur Flehinger, "Flames of Fury", Jewish Chronicle, 9 November 1979, p. 27, cited in Gilbert, loc. cit. 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.German Mobs' Vengeance on Jews", The Daily Telegraph, 11 November 1938, cited in Gilbert, Martin (2006). Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. New York: HarperCollins. p.42. ISBN 978-0060570835. Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms". Online exhibitions, special topics. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008 . Retrieved 20 May 2008. A great collection of primary sources woven together to illustrate the terror the Nazis unleashed on Jews prior to the outbreak of World War II. It shatters the notion that the scope of atrocities the Nazis committed before the war were unknown to the Allies and that there was no indicator of the true horror to come. It manages to accomplish this task while remaining immersed in a rich collection of first-hand accounts from individuals throughout Europe who suffered during Kristallnacht, demonstrating the influence the Nazis and their European allies had throughout the "annexed" German territories. Miskin, Maayana (8 February 2010). "Yad Vashem to Honor Aborigine". Israel National News. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012 . Retrieved 20 April 2012. Daily Telegraph, 12 November 1938. Cited in Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. HarperCollins, 2006, p. 142.

Corb, Noam (2020). " "From Tears Come Rivers, from Rivers Come Oceans, from Oceans -a Flood": The Polenaktion, 1938-1939". Yad Vashem Studies. 48: 21–69. 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 ] Vom Rath's assassination sparked what the Nazis had been planning for months, a nationwide pogrom and orgy of destruction against the Jews, across the Third Reich (Germany, Austria and Sudetenland). a b Eugene Davidson. The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8262-1045-6. p. 325 It was in response to the shooting of a German diplomat by a young Jew, Herschel Grynszpa, who walked into the German Embassy and shot a diplomat, Von Rath, who later died. He had been inspired to commit this act by the fate of his own family who had been part of the expulsion of 12,000 Jews to Poland. 4000 were accepted by the authorities but the rest, destitute and penniless,

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Die "Kristallnacht"-Lüge - Die Ereignisse vom 9./10. November 1938 | ZbE". www.zukunft-braucht-erinnerung.de. 26 October 2004. Archived from the original on 9 November 2018 . Retrieved 19 March 2019. The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and an historian who, though his 88 books, has shown there is such a thing as “true history”

KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion". BBC News. 10 November 2022 . Retrieved 10 November 2022.The British historian Martin Gilbert believes that "many non-Jews resented the round-up", [56] his opinion being supported by German witness Dr. Arthur Flehinger who recalls seeing "people crying while watching from behind their curtains". [57] Rolf Dessauers recalls how a neighbor came forward and restored a portrait of Paul Ehrlich that had been "slashed to ribbons" by the Sturmabteilung. "He wanted it to be known that not all Germans supported Kristallnacht." [58] Kristallnacht marked a turning point in relations between Nazi Germany and the rest of the world. The brutality of the pogrom, and the Nazi government's deliberate policy of encouraging the violence once it had begun, laid bare the repressive nature and widespread anti-Semitism entrenched in Germany. World opinion thus turned sharply against the Nazi regime, with some politicians calling for war. On 6 December 1938, William Cooper, an Aboriginal Australian, led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League on a march through Melbourne to the German Consulate to deliver a petition which condemned the "cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany". German officials refused to accept the tendered document. [76] Herschel Grynszpan carried a revolver and thoughts of revenge with him as he walked through the streets of Paris on the morning of November 7, 1938. The 17-year-old German refugee had just learned that his Polish-Jewish parents, along with thousands of other Jews, had been herded into boxcars and deported from Germany. From the day Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, anti-Semitism had become encoded in the governmental policies of Nazi Germany. For years, Jews experienced state-sponsored discrimination and persecution, and Grynszpan had seen enough. Mayn Yingele (Rzewski, Frederic)". Archived from the original on 4 February 2016 . Retrieved 25 January 2016.