Martin Gilbert tells the story by making it real by recounting the experiences of survivors and descendants He writes of the occasional heroes who risked their lives to save others; the diplomats who ignored their governments' instructions and issued visas to allow people to escape and the ordinary people who did their best to hide Jewish neighbours from the Gestapo. Schwab, Gerald (1990). The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. Praeger. p.14. ISBN 9780275935764. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021 . Retrieved 22 December 2016. ...vom Rath joined the NSDAP (Nazi party) on July 14, 1932, well before Hitler's ascent to power The world’s newspapers reported the unfolding events in mounting horror as a civilised society descended into barbarism and Germany fell into chaos. One newspaper spoke of ‘the racial hatred and hysteria that seemed to have taken complete control of otherwise decent people.’

KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion". BBC News. 10 November 2022 . Retrieved 10 November 2022. A more personal response, in 1939, was the oratorio A Child of Our Time by the English composer Michael Tippett. [78] Post-war trials [ edit ] JudenVermoegersabgabe" (The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies)". Archived from the original on 21 April 2006 . Retrieved 4 May 2006. The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and an historian who, though his 88 books, has shown there is such a thing as “true history” Connolly, Kate (22 October 2008). "Kristallnacht remnants unearthed near Berlin". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013 . Retrieved 7 May 2010.

The former German Kaiser Wilhelm II commented "For the first time, I am ashamed to be German." [47] The Kindertransports of children took many. Sir Nicholas Winton saved many and Captain Foley in Berlin and Dr Feng Shan Ho in Vienna undoubtedly saved thousands by issuing many visas. And some ordinary Germans stood against the tide and did what they could. The events of Kristallnacht represented one of the most important turning points in National Socialist antisemitic policy. Historians have noted that after the pogrom, anti-Jewish policy was concentrated more and more concretely into the hands of the SS. Moreover, the passivity with which most German civilians responded to the violence signaled to the Nazi regime that the German public was prepared for more radical measures.

The first hand accounts give the horrible events an immediacy as children and young people describe seeing burning synagogues, sacred Torah scrolls being tossed in rivers, mobs barging in to destroy their homes or Nazis coming to take away male family members. They were either never seen again or returned changed, damaged. It is not known how many committed suicide. The acts of vicious cruelty and spite by mobs who knew they could get away with it made very disturbing reading. The rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. [6] Over 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms, [41] many Jewish cemeteries, more than 7,000 Jewish shops, and 29 department stores were damaged, and in many cases destroyed. More than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps; primarily Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen. [42]A German diplomat was shot by a Jew in early November 1938. By the next day an uprising of intense anger and hatred and violent retaliation against the Jews began. Kristallnacht-the Night of Broken Glass, November 10, 1938, was a night of fiery destruction. Jewish businesses and synagogues and homes were destroyed. Jewish people were rounded up and abused and murdered. This night, set the tone of continued violent antisemitism that lasted until the end of World War II. German Mobs' Vengeance on Jews", The Daily Telegraph, 11 November 1938, cited in Gilbert, Martin (2006). Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. New York: HarperCollins. p.42. ISBN 978-0060570835. I have been impacted, but do not understand, the violence and murder-the extent to what the Nazis did to another people group. The November Pogrom (Kristallnacht)". Beth Shalom National Holocaust Centre and Museum. 14 December 2016. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019 . Retrieved 1 July 2019. The November Pogrom also has another name, Kristallnacht, which means "Crystal Night". This Night of Crystal refers to the Night of Broken Glass... Polenaktion" und Pogrome 1938 – "Jetzt rast der Volkszorn. Laufen lassen" ". Der Spiegel (in German). 29 October 2018. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019 . Retrieved 9 November 2018.

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Lauber, Heinz (1981). Judenpogrom: "Reichskristallnacht" November 1938 in Grossdeutschland: Daten, Fakten, Dokumente, Quellentexte, Thesen und Bewertungen (Aktuelles Taschenbuch) (in German). Bleicher. ISBN 3-88350-005-4. Berenbaum, Michael (20 December 2018). "Kristallnacht". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019 . Retrieved 1 July 2019. Kristallnacht, (German: "Crystal Night"), also called Night of Broken Glass or November Pogroms Corrie Ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who, along with her family, became active in the Dutch Resistance against the Nazis. They hid Jews and other members of the Resistance from the Nazis, until an informant led to their arrest. Ten Boom was sent to prison, then several concentration camps, and eventually released because of a clerical error. Even after her release, she helped disabled individuals hiding from the Nazis. She and her family have been honored as Righteous Gentiles for their work—and this book is their story. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Kristallnacht marked a turning point in relations between Nazi Germany and the rest of the world. The brutality of the pogrom, and the Nazi government's deliberate policy of encouraging the violence once it had begun, laid bare the repressive nature and widespread anti-Semitism entrenched in Germany. World opinion thus turned sharply against the Nazi regime, with some politicians calling for war. On 6 December 1938, William Cooper, an Aboriginal Australian, led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League on a march through Melbourne to the German Consulate to deliver a petition which condemned the "cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany". German officials refused to accept the tendered document. [76] Telegram protesting against the persecution of Jews in Germany" (PDF) (in Spanish). El Clarín de Chile's. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 August 2012 . Retrieved 19 October 2014.