Kristallnacht, otherwise known as the night of broken glass, marked a crucial turning point in the Nazis' anti-Jewish policy and may be considered the beginning of what is now called the Holocaust. Kristallnacht occurred on November 9-10, 1938, in cities throughout Germany. Kristallnacht was a pogrom that influenced Jews to leave Germany. The name ironically comes from the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these programs. The one responsible for the act is Adolf Hitler. The hatred towards Jews wasn’t only because of Hitler. People previously disliked Jews. It wasn't a new thing, but Hitler was the one who took action toward his beliefs—the message Hitler wanted to spread around got around. Kristallnacht very much sent a clear …show more content…
In reality, Kristallnacht was a state-sponsored vandalism and arson (“Holocaust Encyclopedia”). Nazis planned to use fear as their weapon. They thought that threats against the Jews who were still in Germany would silence outside critics of the Nazi Government. In October of 1938, during riots, local Nazis set hundreds of synagogues on fire. Vandalized thousands of Jewish-owned establishments, broke into homes, smashed furniture, and terrorized Jewish families. He wanted to encourage violence against Jews, and he did. Large numbers of non-Jews, or “ordinary” people, were involved in looting, picking up goods thrown out onto the streets, and benefiting from the expropriation of Jewish property (“Lives destroyed by Nazis”). No matter how hard the Nazis pushed the Jews, no one in the world would try to stop them (“Fitzgerald 15”). Both young and old turned out to humiliate Jews. That night numerous men, women, and children were taken in box cars and taken away to concentration camps on the days of the event.During all of the looting and destruction policemen did not protect Jew's property neither did firemen put out fires in buildings and
The Holocaust could be best described as the widespread genocide of over eleven million Jews and other undesirables throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945. It all began when Adolf Hitler, Germany's newest leader, enforced the Nuremburg Race Laws. These laws discriminated against Jews and other undesirables and segregated them from the rest of the population. As things grew worse, Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing. The laws even stripped them of their citizenship.
On the night of Kristallnacht, many German citizens were bystanders, either out of fear or approval for what was happening. Another example of bystanders on this day were the firefighters. Although they cannot be considered perpetrators because they did not directly attack the Jews, they only prevented the fire from reaching non-Jewish properties. Through these actions, bystanders only affirm the perpetrators and fuel the fire. In some cases, like the firefighters, they are even more dangerous than the perpetrators by allowing the fire to reach Jewish properties.
Kristallnacht was a savage night where hundreds where murdered. In addition, Kristallnacht means the night of broken glass in German, and The Night of Broken Glass occurred on the night of November 9th until November 10th. Kristallnacht took place in small parts of Austria, Sudentland, and all over Germany in addition discrimination of the Jews had dated all the way back to 1935 by Germans. Two years before Kristallnacht, Jews were treated unfairly and ignored by the society, furthermore Germans did not allow Jews attend public parks and in 1936, Jews were banned to come see the Olympic Games which were held in Germany at the time. Kristallnacht got its nickname The Night of Broken Glass due to the fact that during November 9th and 10th rioters and police, violent and extreme, sh...
At the start of Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror, no one would have been able to foresee what eventually led to the genocide of approximately six million Jews. However, steps can be traced to see how the Holocaust occurred. One of those steps would be the implementation of the ghetto system in Poland. This system allowed for Jews to be placed in overcrowded areas while Nazi officials figured out what to do with them permanently. The ghettos started out as a temporary solution that eventually became a dehumanizing method that allowed mass relocation into overcrowded areas where starvation and privation thrived. Also, Nazi officials allowed for corrupt Jewish governments that created an atmosphere of mistrust within its walls. Together, this allowed
Glass shatters easily. Just like the hearts, souls, and lives of so many people who were subjected to one of the most awful crimes against humanity. One of the horrific events involving the Jews prior to the beginning of the Holocaust happened in the fall of 1938. This event was known as Kristallnacht, which translates into “The Night of Broken Glass” and was carried out as the result of the killing of Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan for the forced deportation of his parents and thousands of other Polish Jews living in Germany at the time. The Nazi Party ordered attacks on Jewish communities throughout the country. During Kristallnacht, as the night came to be known, Jews in Germany, whether citizens or not, were targeted and attacked.
Kristallnacht- The Night of Broken Glass On November 9th,1938, there was a major change in the lives of many Jews that lived in Germany. This night will forever be known as the Kristallnacht.
Kristallnacht has been described by James M. Deem as “a night of terror, where the Nazis raided the Jews shops by breaking the windows and destroying their things” (Deem 6). Kristallnacht was also referred to as “the night of the broken glass” because of all the broken windows from the Jewish houses and shops. In “Night”, Kristallnacht was described as a night of anti-Jewish riots. During this time Jewish homes were robbed, synagogues burned, Jewish businesses destroyed, and many Jews were, arrested, tortured, beaten, or killed. A tax was then imposed by the government on the Jews. They were being forced to pay for Kristallnacht property damage. The Germans wanted to try and terrorize the Jews by doing this. After the night of Kristallnacht, over 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps. Also lots of Jewish artifacts were destroyed. The rest of the world started to become aware of what was happening and decided that they should help them. They started sending their armies to rescue the Jews in the concentration
November 9th, 1938: The precursor to the Holocaust or the start of it itself? In either case, by November 11th––with thousands of Jewish stores looted and/ or destroyed, several hundred synagogues burned down, and houses vandalized and robbed––the appearance of war had seemingly passed through Central Germany. Kristallnacht, otherwise known as the “Night of Broken Glass”, was one the events that most likely struck fear into all the hearts and minds of the Jewish family's within Hitler's Third Reich. The atrocities committed against a whole population within a region were all caused by one young man's actions, which shows how ruthless yet organized the Nazi regime truly was. Oppressing Jews was the Nazi's way of showing Germany who was in control and those against it would be silenced in one way or another.
The fear of the Jews that was created by the Nazis was effective. Small Jewish shops were burned or heavily destroyed by the German people. The propaganda that was used to cause the hatred of Jews was created to show how to solve Germany’s problems. According to the Anne Frank House, the solution to all of Germany’s problems was to banish Jews from society (“Banish”). According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, Jews were not allowed in movie theaters, swimming pools, and resorts (“Victims”). Jews were forced out of Germany at one point. The whole point was to get rid of any other race beside Aryan. Hitler believed if Germany was completely Aryan and stro...
It is told that on the night of November 9 and early November 10, 1938, Nazis incited a pogrom against the Jewish in Austria and Germany. It is termed, “Kristallnact” (“Night of Broken Glass). This night of violence included pillaging and burning of synagogues, breaking of the windows in Jewish owned businesses, looting, and physically attacking of Jewish people. Approximately, 30,000...
The Jewish people were targeted, hunted, tortured, and killed, just for being Jewish, Hitler came to office on January 20, 1933; he believed that the German race had superiority over the Jews in Germany. The Jewish peoples’ lives were destroyed; they were treated inhumanly for the next 12 years, “Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews” (Levy). Hitler blamed a lot of the problems on the Jewish people, being a great orator Hitler got the support from Germany, killing off millions of Jews and other people, the German people thought it was the right thing to do. “To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community” (History.com Staff).
The Holocaust, the mass killing of the Jewish people in Europe, is the largest genocide in history to this date. Over the course of the Holocaust nearly six million Jewish people were killed by the Nazi Party and Germany led by Adolf Hitler. There are multiple contributing factors to the Holocaust that made it so large in scope. Historians argue which of these factors were most significant. The most significant contributing factor is the source of the Holocaust, the reason it occurred. This source is Adolf Hitler and his hatred for Jewish people. In comparison to the choices of the Allies to not accept Jewish refugees and to not take direct military action to end the Holocaust, the most significant contributing factor of the Holocaust is that Adolf Hitler was able to easily rise to power with the support of the German people and rule Germany.
The Holocaust could best be defined as the mass killing of about 6 million Jewish people during World War II. A lot of events led up to the Holocaust, during the Holocaust, and even after the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party and was held most responsible for this terrible genocide. The Holocaust was a terrible time in our world’s history.
A Holocaust is a disaster that results in the large-scale destruction of life. Although this name has been used to describe many catastrophes over centuries, today it has a more specific meaning. The Holocaust refers to the annihilation of 6 million Jews, men, women, and children, in addition to other groups of people by Hitler and the Nazi party during World War II. Such a destruction of a particular group or race is called genocide. (Resnick 9)
Kristallnacht, “Night of the Broken Glass”, was a pogrom by the Nazi Party, against the German and Austrian Jews. The Nazi Party was a government group in charge of Germany, that ran based on the idea that Jews were the enemy, and should be wiped out. Before Kristtalnacht, there had been acts of anti-semitism, but none quite as big. This was the big event that made people look up from their own lives and realize the Nazis were dangerous. It served as a warning for both Jews, and westerners who were outside the conflict.