Analysis Of Kristallnacht

The shards of glass that covered the streets and the smoke that filled the air of burning homes and synagogues throughout Germany, annexed Austria, some areas of Czechoslovakia that had been occupied by Nazis on the days of November 9 and 10, 1938 is known as one of the most memorable events when the Nazis had displayed anti-Semitic behavior, this incident is called Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht is one of the most hateful oppression of an ethnicity in history and describes how the act of one Jew was transformed to being the act of all Jews. Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and executed close to a hundred Jews. This was a significant event during the Holocaust which led to the imprisonment

Behind the scenes Adolf Hitler played a role as well, in Donald L. Niewyk’s book The Holocaust on page 25 author Ian Kershaw, in regards to Kristallnacht, states, “What anger Hitler harboured was purely at an “action” that threatened to engulf him in unpopularity.” If Hitler had not feared the loss of followers and supporters he would have been more in the spotlight taking credit for things during these those two night of hell on the 9 and 10 but although he was not wanting it to be known that he was a part of this horrid act, he did not say anything speaking against the event

This meeting consisted of Hermann Göring, Reinhard Heydrich, Joseph Goebbels, and Walter Funk. The purpose of these meeting was to do two things which were make Jews accountable for Kristallnacht. This meant Jews were enforced to pay for the property damage that happened as result of the event and they also had to pay retribution of one billion Reich marks on account of the assassination of Vom Rath. The second objective this conference wanted to achieve was making new anti-Semitic laws which during his speech Göring states, “and I implore competent agencies to take all measures for the elimination of the Jew from the German economy, and to submit them to me.” This meeting is imperative because it marks another major point in the path leading up to what is called the “Final