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Subj: Today in History - Nov 09
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On November 9, 1938, in an event that would foreshadow the Holocaust, German Nazis launch a campaign of terror against Jewish p
eople and their homes and businesses in Germany and Austria. The violence, which continued through November 10 and was later du
bbed “Kristallnacht,” or “Night of Broken Glass,” after the countless smashed windows of Jewish-owned establishments, l
eft approximately 100 Jews dead, 7,500 Jewish businesses damaged and hundreds of synagogues, homes, schools and graveyards vand
alized. An estimated 30,000 Jewish men were arrested, many of whom were then sent to concentration camps for several months; th
ey were released when they promised to leave Germany. Kristallnacht represented a dramatic escalation of the campaign started b
y Adolf Hitler in 1933 when he became chancellor to purge Germany of its Jewish population.
The Nazis used the murder of a low-level German diplomat in Paris by a 17-year-old Polish Jew as an excuse to carry out the Kri
stallnacht attacks. On November 7, 1938, Ernst vom Rath was shot outside the German embassy by Herschel Grynszpan, who wanted r
evenge for his parents sudden deportation from Germany to Poland, along with tens of thousands of other Polish Jews. Followi
ng vom Raths death, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ordered German storm troopers to carry out violent riots disgui
sed as “spontaneous demonstrations” against Jewish citizens. Local police and fire departments were told not to interfere.
In the face of all the devastation, some Jews, including entire families, died by suicide.
In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, the Nazis blamed the Jews and fined them 1 billion marks (or $400 million in 1938 dollars) f
or vom Raths death. As repayment, the government seized Jewish property and kept insurance money owed to Jewish people. In i
ts quest to create a master Aryan race, the Nazi government enacted further discriminatory policies that essentially excluded J
ews from all aspects of public life.
Over 100,000 Jews fled Germany for other countries after Kristallnacht. The international community was outraged by the violent
events of November 9 and 10. Some countries broke off diplomatic relations in protest, but the Nazis suffered no serious conse
quences, emboldening them to escalate the mass murder that was the Holocaust, in which an estimated 6 million European Jews die
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