The Night of Broken Glass THESIS Kristallnacht the night of broken glass was a violent attacks on Jews and their property which signaled to the world Adolf Hitlers intentions Homeless In 1938 12000 Polish Jews living in Germany were ordered to ID: 334415
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Kristallnacht
The Night of Broken GlassSlide2
THESIS
Kristallnacht
, the night of broken glass, was a violent attacks on Jews and their property which signaled to the world Adolf Hitler’s intentions.Slide3
Homeless
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. Slide4
Herschel Grynszpan
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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.Slide5
His Protest to the World
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.Slide6
KristallnachtSlide7
The Night of Broken Glass
1,000 German Synagogues were burned or lootedSlide8
German Firefighters kept fires from spreading to non-Jewish propertySlide9
Revenge against all Jews in Germany and Austria
7,000 business
looted
or
vandalized
Jewish children banned from public schoolsGerman Jews fined to pay for the clean upSlide10
Jewish leaders were major targets of arrest and humiliationSlide11
Kristallnacht
was the first open violence against German Jews
25,000 men were arrested
They were the first to enter concentration campsSlide12