Apparently, Dr Joseph Goebbels was responsible for the Kristallnacht in 1938.
Although, some say otherwise, believing that the Kristallnacht was started by the example set by numerous pairs of strangers entering German cities, making anti-Jewish speeches and attacking Jewish shops and businesses.
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Historians of the period have no doubt that it was Goebbels.
Implementation of Kristallnacht
No 'unidenitified groups' were involved. The Kristallnacht was carried out by Nazi stormtroopers, members of the SS and Hitler Youth, acting on orders. Many of them were ordered to wear civilian clothes in order to create the impression that enraged members of the public were acting spontaneously. However, the Nazi regime, like all dictatorships, did not like genuinely spontaneous action.
kristallnacht
30 million Deutschmarks.
condemnation but not action
Kristallnacht - album - was created in 1993.
Implementation of Kristallnacht
No 'unidenitified groups' were involved. The Kristallnacht was carried out by Nazi stormtroopers, members of the SS and Hitler Youth, acting on orders. Many of them were ordered to wear civilian clothes in order to create the impression that enraged members of the public were acting spontaneously. However, the Nazi regime, like all dictatorships, did not like genuinely spontaneous action.
Kristallnacht - 1979 was released on: USA: 1979 (Canyon Cinema)
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.
Society does not learn. It was portrayed that Kristallnacht was the fault of the Jews and they were made to pay to clean up afterwards.
they were ordered not to interfere.
1. Kristallnacht - Night of the Broken Glass 2. Endloesung - Final Solution (of the Jewish question).
Kristallnacht had nothing to do with military strategy. Please see related question.
Hitler ordered Kristallnacht as an excuse to get rid of Jews, or capture Jews that had been individually selected to be arrested.
In English it is called the Night of Broken (the) Glassand in German it is called Kristallnacht.
During the Kristallnacht and the days that followed about 30,000 German Jews were sent to concentration camps.