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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht. The Night of Broken Glass. Kristallnacht , the night of broken glass, was a violent attacks on Jews and their property which signaled to the world Adolf Hitler’s intentions. THESIS. In 1938 12,000 Polish Jews living in Germany were ordered to leave.

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Kristallnacht

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  1. Kristallnacht The Night of Broken Glass

  2. Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, was a violent attacks on Jews and their property which signaled to the world Adolf Hitler’s intentions. THESIS

  3. In 1938 12,000 Polish Jews living in Germany were ordered to leave. • Dropped at the Polish border, Poland refused to accept them. • Without adequate food or shelter, they waited. • One family wrote their son, desperate for help. Homeless

  4. 17 and broke, he had no way to help. • He bought a gun and went to the German Embassy. • He shot and killed a member of the German Embassy staff. Herschel Grynszpan

  5. With God's help.My dear parents, I could not do otherwise, may God forgive me, the heart bleeds when I hear of your tragedy and that of the 12,000 Jews. I must protest so that the whole world hears my protest, and that I will do. Forgive me. His Protest to the World

  6. Kristallnacht

  7. 1,000 German Synagogues were burned or looted The Night of Broken Glass

  8. German Firefighters kept fires from spreading to non-Jewish property

  9. 7,000 business looted or vandalized • Jewish children banned from public schools • German Jews fined to pay for the clean up Revenge against all Jews in Germany and Austria

  10. Jewish leaders were major targets of arrest and humiliation

  11. 25,000 men were arrested • They were the first to enter concentration camps Kristallnacht was the first open violence against German Jews

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