Kristallnacht is also known as '"Night of the broken glass." The name refers to the brutal and extremely violent night. This event took place on November 9th and 10th, 1938. It all started with local anti-Jewish riots in smaller places, but one of the first ones happened on November 07, 1938 when a large group made up of SA and SS troops destroyed and broke into Jewish businesses. Five other towns near by were also violent that same night. Ghettos were much like small cities were Jews were forced to live. Most of the times, these had walls, making it hard for the Jews to leave. The purpose of them was to separate the Jewish from those who were not Jews. The population in these places was often big and they had to live in very poor conditions. …show more content…
To stop this, kids in the ghetto dug a hole on one side of the fence and another on the other side and managed to get out and obtain food. "...a child could sneak out to the other side and, you know, take off the Star of David and try to act like a normal human being and see if we could obtain food. And now and then, children brought home some food back to the ghetto. I did it many times." This is important because it helps us kind of understand the necessity they had for food. It was extremely dangerous to get out of the ghetto and if they were to be caught they would have been killed. Not only were they suffering for food but their own self esteems were being affected. They saw themselves different when in reality, we are all the same. This confirms how cruel all the laws and discrimination was. Leah Hammerstein Silverstain was interviewed on 1996, and her family suffered from hunger yet only one died. "We came to live in the ghetto in, in October 1940. By, by March my father was dead, starved to death" Although it was true that they got food, it was not enough for someone to survive. This affected all Jews, since they were forced to be in these camps and could not really do anything else than let it …show more content…
She was interviewed on June 2005. "It was about ten in the morning when a dozen Japanese soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets rushed into the house. They shot my father and grabbed my baby sister, who was being breast-fed by my mother. They stabbed the baby to death and stripped my mother and raped her. Then the Japanese killed my grandparents and dragged two of my sisters out of our house and raped them. Then they stabbed me and my 3-year old sister with bayonets. I saw both of my older sisters lying in pools of blood, dead." This demonstartes how they killed with not even thinking about the famliy. The Japanese were really willing to do anything to expand their military. This is significant because it is one of the steps to the second world war. Appeasement was the right policy for England in 1938 because they did not have a strong army and like Bartlett said, " The British forces, one is told, were scandalously unprepared, and were able to make good some of their defects during that year." Not only did they reinforce their military but they also got people to see they were trying everything to prevent this war, and that way, they would be more likely to support the war. Nevile Chamberlain was the prime minister in England at the time, and he thought that they should try everything in their power to try and avoid the war. "...We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible
Her father was a fisherman in Long Beach with her two oldest brothers working as his crew on his prideful fishing boat. The family lived in Ocean Park, a small town in Santa Monica, where they were the only Japanese family in their neighborhood. Her father liked it that way because the label of being Japanese or even Asian was trite. When the news that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Jeanne and most of her family found themselves asking the same question: " What is Pearl Harbor?" (Houston 6) When the news came, her father seemed to be the only one to understand. He proceeded to burn his country's flag that he brought to the US with him wh...
Kristallnacht was a savage night where hundreds where murdered. In addition, Kristallnacht means the night of broken glass in German, and The Night of Broken Glass occurred on the night of November 9th until November 10th. Kristallnacht took place in small parts of Austria, Sudentland, and all over Germany in addition discrimination of the Jews had dated all the way back to 1935 by Germans. Two years before Kristallnacht, Jews were treated unfairly and ignored by the society, furthermore Germans did not allow Jews attend public parks and in 1936, Jews were banned to come see the Olympic Games which were held in Germany at the time. Kristallnacht got its nickname The Night of Broken Glass due to the fact that during November 9th and 10th rioters and police, violent and extreme, sh...
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Additionally, it presented a Non-Intervention plan to Britain, Italy and Despite Germany’s withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933, their rearmament program which directly violated the Treaty of Versailles and Italy’s occupation of Ethiopia in 1935, Britain continued to appease the leaders in order to avoid conflict. Firstly, Britain was suffering from an economic crisis following the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression making it extremely vulnerable in the event of a war. Additionally, Britain couldn’t reach out to anyone for support; the USA practiced isolationism and communist Russia wouldn’t make a good ally. Furthermore, the British people were against another conflict and were still recuperating from World War I. The aforementioned reasons explain the rationale behind British appeasement policy in the
Despite the ghetto's conditions, some people wanted to give meaning to life. Many risked their lives for things such as their children's education, religion, and cultural activities. Books, music, and theater help distract the Jews and remind them of life before the ghettos. There were underground libraries, archive, youth movements, and a symphony orchestra. Doing these activities helped the Jews feel better about their harsh conditions. Many still wanted to help the weak among them and many got in trouble to sav...
The Germans wanted to control the size of the Jewish population by forcing Jews to lived in segregated sections of towns call Jewish residential quarters or ghettos. They created over 400 ghettos where Jewish adults and children were forced to reside and survive. Most ghettos were located in the oldest, most run-down places in town, that German soldiers to pick to make life in the ghetto as hard as possible. Overcrowding was frequent, several families lived in one apartment, plumbing was apprehended, human excrement was thrown out with the garbage, contagious diseases ran rapid, and hunger was everywhere. During the winter, heating was scarce, and many did not have the appropriate clothing to survive. Jerry Koenig, a Polish Jewish child, remembers: “The situation in the Warsaw Ghetto was truly horrendous- food, water, and sanitary conditions were non-existent. You couldn’t wash, people were hungry, and very susceptible to disease...
It is told that on the night of November 9 and early November 10, 1938, Nazis incited a pogrom against the Jewish in Austria and Germany. It is termed, “Kristallnact” (“Night of Broken Glass). This night of violence included pillaging and burning of synagogues, breaking of the windows in Jewish owned businesses, looting, and physically attacking of Jewish people. Approximately, 30,000...
Kristallnacht, a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms, took place on November 9 and 10, 1938 and is often referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass." Organized by Goebbels and Heydrich, head of the Security Service, the campaign of violence resulted in the destruction of many synagogues and thousands of Jewish businesses. Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, killed close to 100 Jews, and sent more than 30,000 to Nazi concentration camps. Starting on November 9 and continuing into the next day, Nazi mobs vandalized and even burned down hundreds of synagogues throughout Germany and damaged, if not completely destroyed, thousands of Jewish homes, schools, businesses, hospitals and cemeteries.
...ent had given European countries the initial act of being responsible and gave them the chance to win a war by building up their armies. Appeasing Hitler had shown their loyalty and understanding of how much Germany had lost in relation to the Treaty of Versailles, and how they deserved some of what was taken given back. In the end, World War II was lost to Germany and because of that; the world today is now at peace. Appeasement was truly the right thing to do and the freedom of today reflects that.
uring the holocaust, certain districts of cities and towns were set aside for the Jews. These districts were usually the poorest and dilapidated sections of town. They were called Ghettos. Jews were coerced to live in these ghettos by law.
They were deported on packed trains. Many people died on the trains from hunger, disease, thirst, and suffocation. The Jews could be on the trains for months at a time. Soon after Germany separated from Austria in March 1938, the Nazi soldiers arrested and imprisoned Jews in concentration camps all over Germany. Only eight months after annexation, the violent anti-jew Kristallnacht, also known as Night of the Broken Glass, pogroms took place.
Forces pushed the Jewish population by the thousands into segregated areas of a city. These areas, known as ghettos, were small. The large ghetto in Sighet that Elie Wiesel describes in Night consisted of only four streets and originally housed around ten thousand Jews. The families that were required to relocate were only allowed to bring what they could carry, leaving the majority of their belongings and life behind. Forced into the designated districted, “fifteen to twenty-four people occupied a single room” (Fischthal). Living conditions were overcrowded and food was scarce. In the Dąbrowa Górnicza ghetto, lining up for bread rations was the morning routine, but “for Jews and dogs there is no bread available” (qtd. in Fischthal). Cut off from the rest of civilization, Jews relied on the Nazis f...
The world plunged into World War II in 1939, from the unsettlement between countries. Different countries had different ideas about world affairs. Some countries preferred appeasement and other countries preferred collective securities to solve problems such as the turmoil in Germany. According to the circumstances of Europe during 1939, from economic depression and unsettlement between countries, collective security was the best answer. Appeasement was attempted, but it turned out to be a failure.
In conclusion, the policy of appeasement was described by some scholars as ineffective. The fact that the policy of appeasement failed to avert World War 2 is a direct justification that it was a wrong-headed policy. The policy allowed Germany to reconstruct its military slowly and eventually was prepared to go into war to defend its military triumph. Chamberlain was aware of Hitler’s ambitions, but thought that the best alternative to deal with his ambitions was negotiations. This was a misguided move which the world is able to learn from.
Many racial and ethnic groups are treated cruel, which contributes to the problem of discrimination. The inhumane treatment inflicted onto different racial and ethnic groups is provoking horrific violence around the world. The film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, gives us an insight to the cruel treatment endured by Jewish people in World War II. Jewish people were taken from their homes, separated from their families, and placed in concentration camps where they were expected to die. They were exposed to extreme levels of abuse, such as starvation, physical beatings, and emotional torture. The fear and terrorizing the soldiers used on the Jews is shown in the scene when Lieutenant Kotler catches Shmuel eating a cookie: “Are you eating? Have you been stealing food?