Germany in WW2

Nazi Violence & Hatred Unleashed: Kristallnacht (1938)

Ø 9-10 November 1938: Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). Nazi ordered & sponsored violence directed at Jews in Germany & parts of Austria on a massive scale. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination, at the German Embassy in Paris, of the 29 year old German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by 17 year old Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew living in Paris. Ernst vom Rath, a former SA member, was shot on 7 November and died two days later.

Ø During the violence carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians, at least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps (where another 2,000 were killed). Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.

Ø On 11 November German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels publically attributed the events of Kristallnacht to the "healthy instincts" of the German people. He went on to explain: "The German people are anti-Semitic. It has no desire to have its rights restricted or to be provoked in the future by parasites of the Jewish race."

Ø Front-page headline & story of New York Times, 11 November 1938: Nazis Smash, Loot and Burn Jewish Shops and Temples Until Goebbels Calls Halt.

Ø The violence created international outrage against Germany, the Nazis & Hitler. The United States recalled its ambassador (but did not break off diplomatic relations) while other governments severed diplomatic relations with Germany in protest.

Ø Kristallnacht marked a turning point in relations between Nazi Germany and the rest of the world. The Nazi government's encouragement of the violence & brutality, publically exposed the despotic nature of widespread anti-Semitism entrenched in Germany, and this turned most world opinion sharply against the Nazi regime.

Ø Kristallnacht changed the nature of persecution from economic, political, and social to the physical with beatings, incarceration, and murder; the event is often referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust.

Ø The number of emigrating Jews surged. In the ten months following Kristallnacht, more than 115,000 Jews emigrated from Germany & Austria to other European countries, the US and to Palestine.

Ø The Nazis achieved in Kristallnacht many of their objectives: confiscation of Jewish belongings to provide finances for Nazi Party members and the bribery of top military leaders, separation and isolation of the Jews, and most importantly, the intensification of anti-Semitic policy to add officially-sanctioned physical violence, beginning that night and continuing until the end of World War II.

The current kill count is estimated to be over one million people, approaching closer to being two million killed. Which would mean on average, 80,000 plus lives were taken a year, for each of the 23 years Saddam Hussein was in power over Iraq. The murders tallied were those killed by Suddam Hussein himself, under his order or killed because of him. Saddam Hussein's entire kill count is unknown due to the fact he buried bodies in many unknown grave sites. We can only guess or estimate how many people he killed but no one really knows for sure and he did not even know how many people he had killed. Out of the mass graves that were discovered following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003, suggest that the total combined figure for Kurds, Shias and dissidents alone that were killed could be as high as 300,000.

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria to Alois and Klara Hitler. Adolf was the fourth of six children born to Alois and Klara, but only one of two to survive childhood.

Adolf's father, Alois, had changed his name from Schicklgruber to Hitler in 1876, on other words, 13 years before AH was born.

(In World War 2 Allied propaganda had great fun with the name Schicklgruber, but it was of course only propaganda).

Yes the man was a Jew and was the start of hitlers grudge he built up twords Jews

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Don't believe the above. It is true that Hitler was not admitted to Vienna Art Academy. But the decision was (as always) made by the board, not by one man.

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It's a very strange thing, but nobody seems to be able to name the person(s) who rejected Hitler from art school ... According to Ian Kershaw, the first evidence of Hitler's antisemitism dates from 1917, when H. was 28,

With the collapse of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, the map of Europe had to be almost entirely redrawn after the War. In place of the old empires, new nations representing different identities were born.
Among other means, WW1 changed the map of Europe through the disbanding of empires (e.g. Austro-Hungarian), loss of territory (e.g. Germany gave up territory to Poland and Czechoslovakia), the formation of new countries (e.g. Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia) and the transfer in ownership of colonies (e.g. Germany's and Turkey's) to the League of Nations.

Note: previous answer claiming a causal connection between bombing and earthquakes has no scientific basis

Due to some areas being largely bombed, the vibrations in the earth's upper layer caused earthquakes. In turn these relatively unknown Quakes Changed landscapes whether it have been Land breaking off and joining Other Countries or continents or just forming hills or dichtes.

Also, due to land being conquered by the German Wehrmacht (army) The map was changed, Then when the treaty of Versailles was Bestowed upon Germany The land they Had used for military purposes (The rhineland) was taken away and given to any neighbouring countries. This also changed the map.