Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi Propaganda Minister who made a speech to incite the Kristallnacht riot. While the riots were not organised, he is generally regarded as having initiated the riots.
The Nazis had a major problem with the Jews and this is still remembered many years later. The rampage took place in 1938 and it is called the Kristallnacht.
Kristallnacht means Night of Broken Glass. This pogrom happened in November 1938 in Germany. Hitler permitted Joseph Goebbels (minister of propaganda) to start a pogrom against Jews throughout the Reich (the Empire). Nazi stormtroopers smashed Jewish shops, and thousands of Jews were arrested. They burnt over 400 synagogues, and killed about 100 Jews. About 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps.
November 9, 1938, The Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels announced a government sanctioned general reprisal against the Jews. Synagogues were ravaged and then burned. Jewish shop windows were broken. Homes were entered and pillaged. Jews were beaten, raped, arrested, and murdered. This happened throughout the countries of Germany and Austria.
Kristallnacht, a.k.a Crystal Night was November 9, 1938
Kristallnacht : 9-10 November 1938 .
It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
It was on November 7, 1938 (CE) that Grynspan assassinated Ernst vom Rath, who died two days later, ostensibly precipitating the events known as Kristallnacht.
Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass" (so called because the Nazis broke windows in Jewish shops and homes--they also destroyed synagogues) was actually a two-night event. It happened the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938. Strangely enough, the Berlin Wall opened on November 9, 1989--fifty years to the day after Kristallnacht.
It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
Kristallnacht, literally meaning the Night of Broken Glass, but is now known by the politically correct term, Reichspogromnacht, happened in the 2-day period of Nov. 9-10, 1938. It was ostensibly sparked by the assassination of the Third Secretary to the German embassy in Paris, Ernst vom Rath. Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels initiated a rampage of destruction which saw the burning of synagogues, the destruction of Jewish businesses,homes, and the manhandling of Jews. The Nazis used Kristallnacht as an opportunity to proceed with the total exclusion of Jews from society and the removal of their remaining freedom, while expulsion of Jews from Germany was accelerated. The causes of this event were partly economic, but had a great deal to do with racial hatred and antisemitism on the part of Hitler and the Nazis, whose goal was a racially pure German nation.
Kristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass was a pogrom (a series of coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9-10 November 1938