The Night of Broken Glass was a series of violent attacks on the German Jewish people, homes, businesses, and synagogues on the night of November 9th, 1938. Also known as Kristallnacht, this night brought devastation to Jews all across Germany, German-annexed Austria, and East Prussia, a federated state of Germany. In other words, all Jews in the Third Reich, the German government from 1933-1945. Called the Night of Broken Glass because of the shattered glass found on the streets from the windows of Jewish homes and storefronts the morning after, this night is viewed by historians as the Nazi declaration of war against Jews living under the Third Reich. The date of the Night of Broken Glass cannot be disregarded. It comes on the 15th anniversary …show more content…
In reality, Hitler had the onslaught planned out and put his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, in charge. Speaking to Nazi officials gathered in Munich, Germany, to commemorate the Putsch, Goebbels gave the orders. Divisions of Hitler’s armed forces, the SS, SA, and local German army, as well as the Hitler Youth Organizations were to carry out the dirty work wearing civilian clothing. After removing the archives from the buildings, they should burn down the synagogues. The archives had to be turned in to the local Security Service. Jewish homes and businesses were to be looted or destroyed. As for the Jews, the Nazis were to arrest as many Jews as the prisons could hold, if possible, young, healthy men. However, they were cautioned not to damage or endanger non-Jewish property or lives. Foreign Jews were to be left alone. Jews did not have any police protection. Other than those orders, they were given freedom to do what they wished for the Jews, as long as the Nazis made it look like an unorganized public reaction to vom Rath’s murder. Hitler’s Nazis followed orders.Through the night, 900-1,000 synagogues were burned down, 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and over 30,000 Jewish men were deported to concentration
In Arnold Geier’s autobiography, Broken Glass, Broken Lives, Geier explains how his grandfather and father avoided their capture by the SA, a large group of people dedicated to Hitler’s cause. Geier’s entire family was Jewish, and they were in a constant state of fear due to the inevitable danger they faced every day. On November 8, 1938, Geier’s grandfather was informed of the arrival of the SA and planned to leave with Geier’s father shortly after to stay with friends and associates. The night of November 9, 1938, was the Night of Broken Glass. Members of the SA displayed their nationalism and dedication to the Nazi party by destroying Jewish shops and painting violent phrases on the walls (Geier 34-35). The SA consisted primarily of men whose sole purpose was street-fighting and spreading propaganda. They visibly displayed the absent-minded, harmful ideology that became common to them during the Holocaust. While Geier’s grandfather
Jewish citizens and families are being sent to these camps, held there forced to do work. They are put in chambers where multiple people, large groups and families are gassed with Zyklon B, and are left for dead. Nazis are sent to kidnap Jewish people right out of their houses to send them to these camps. Others were also just shot and killed on the spot. The jewish people tried to resist, but it is difficult with lack of weapons and resources. Hitler was trying to gain power and land from this genocide. He thought that if he took over the world he could be the most powerful person. He also wanted revenge, he was angry about the outcome of WWI and this sparked his interest to get back at his
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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...
How did the Nazis kill so many people? This question is important because somehow the Nazis managed to kill over 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the S.S. deployed Killing Squads which were characterized by their tactics, important dates, and their impact on the Final Solution. Killing Squads managed to find a fast killing tactic. This is a crucial part of the topic because figuring out how Killing Squads kill could show why they were able to kill so many Jews, Gypsies, and Communist leaders.
The Holocaust or the Ha-Shoah in Hebrew meaning ‘the day of the Holocaust and heroism’ refers to the period of time from approximately January 30,1933, when Adolf Hitler became the legal official of Germany, to May 8,1945. After the war was over in Europe, the Jews in Europe were being forced to endure the horrifying persecution that ultimately led to the slaughter of over 6 million Jews with about 1.5 million of them being children as well as the demolition of 5,000 Jewish communities.
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.
Hitler’s first and foremost goal in Germany was to eliminate all of the Jews. With this plan in mind, he consistently sought different methods to kill Jews. One of the first methods Hitler used to complete this mass murder operation was the Einsatzgruppen. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, the Einsatzgruppen were killing units generally composed of German SS and police personnel(...
It wasn't long before the chancellor of Germany was dead, and Hitler had successfully obtained power of the county he supposedly loved so much. RIGHT off the bat Hitler started inforcing his racist laws upon the country, also releasing a list of undesirables that were not wanting within the boundaries of Germany. The German population had fallen into his subduing will for power and superiority and followed in his footsteps to start hating the people that had brought them to the level they were at after the first World War. The undesirable life in Germany was horrible, and got worse every day. The night that nobody in the great country will forget is the night of broken glass.... ...
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).
Approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30th, 1933 there were 566,000 Jewish people living in Germany. The first concentration camp, Dachau, was created on March 22, 1933. Other concentration camps to be created during this time include Buchenwald and Ravensbruck. The first people to be arrested were Communists, labor leaders, and Communists. From 1933-1938 Jews gradually have their rights stripped away beginning with not being able to own land to not being considered citizens according to the Nuremberg Race Laws. Attacks on Jewish businesses and synagogues began on November 9th, 1938 when over the course of two days over 7,000 Jewish businesses and 250 synagogues were destroyed by Germans. Also, Jews were arrested and killed while these tragedies occurred. This series of events is known as Kristallnacht. It marks the beginning of the extreme discrimination and eventually genocide of the Jewish population.
6,000 Jehovah witnesses, over 15,000 homosexuals, 400 “colored” children, and over 5,000,000 Jews were killed. Hitler’s anti-Semitism grew out of anger because the Germans lost the war. He blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in the war. Hitler also used the Jews as an excuse for all the problems that Germany was facing. To get the Jews to get deported, Hitler and his Nazis made the Jews think that they were moving to a better, happier place, when in reality, they were moving to concentration camps, or death camps.
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.
First, the Germans employed Nazi experts and increased their special squad units. Otto Moll was transferred to Auschwitz to lead the mass murder. Braham. “Come on, come on, you lazy bastards, get a move on, faster!” Moll would shout to be cruel towards his workers (Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers).