Slide 11: The Tragedy Of Kristallnacht

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Slide 1: On November 9 through 10 1938, an anti-Jewish pogrom known as “Kristallnacht” occurred. During this incident, Jewish synagogues were torched, Jewish businesses, homes and schools were vandalized and destroyed and close to 100 European Jews were killed by Nazis in Germany and parts of Austria.

Slide 2: The name “Kristallnacht” literally translates to “Crystal Night” in German, and is often referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass”. The incident was named this due to the large amount of shattered glass that covered the streets in Germany after the vandalism of Jewish businesses, homes and schools and desecration of synagogues.

Slide 3: In nearly two days and two nights, more than 1,000 Jewish synagogues had been burned and desecrated; …show more content…

In addition to this, 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to the Sachsenhausen, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. “The swine won’t commit another murder. Incidentally…I would not like to be a Jew in Germany.”

Slide 10: The Jewish community were forced to clear up the rubble of the destroyed synagogues and were refused the right to any compensation claims. After Hermann Goring assessed the $400 million he said

Slide 11: The violence and oppression of Kristallnacht served as a sign to German Jews that Nazi Germany was no longer a safe place and that the violence and anti-Semitism would only escalate. This resulted in many Jews planning to escape from their native lands.

Slide 12: American president Franklin D. Roosevelt read a statement to the media on the 15th of November 1938 in response to Kristallnacht in which he harshly stated the wrongness of anti-Semitism and the Nazi movement in Germany.

Slide 13: Although Roosevelt condemned Nazi Germany, the U.S refused to change their immigration policies, restrictions that constrained mass amounts of German Jews from finding safety in the United States. Reasons for this included anxiety over the possibility of Nazi infiltrators legally settling in the United

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