Night Of Broken Glass Thesis

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Kristallnacht “The morning after Kristallnacht, I remember we looked out the windows and we could see just strands of glass where the windows of the synagogue had been destroyed. The entire inside of the synagogue had been burnt out” ("Cincinnati Eyewitness Testimonies"). The Night of Broken Glass was the trigger for the start of the Holocaust as well as the cause of pain and suffering for thousands of people. The Germans were angry because of the assassination of their official at the hands of the Jews, and their anger fueled their following actions. Synagogues were burned, Jewish houses and business establishments were stolen from and broken into during the Night of Broken Glass, and the event ended with thousands of German Jewish people being taken to concentration camps simply because of their heritage. …show more content…

The fact that they burned their synagogues is unforgivable. “About 119 synagogues were burned and 76 were destroyed”.("The Night of Broken Glass." History.com. A&E Television Networks) How can people sit there and destroy religious temples all over a single killing? Only one Jewish person killed their official, but they blamed all of the Jews and burned over one hundred synagogues for revenge. The importance of these synagogues is irreplaceable. They hold the holy texts, the Torah, the holy book of Judaism, and it represents a place the Jews felt they could be safe. ("The Synagogue: Background & Overview." Synagogue Background & Overview)The Germans took this away from them and they didn’t stop

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