To the consternation of the Nazis, the Kristallnacht affected public opinion counter to their desires, the peak of opposition against the Nazi racial policies was reached just then, when according to almost all accounts the vast majority of Germans rejected the violence perpetrated against the Jews. [70] Verbal complaints grew rapidly in numbers, and for example, the Düsseldorf branch of the Gestapo reported a sharp decline in anti-Semitic attitudes among the population. [71] Centuries of culture and communities vanished with the Final Solution. In Rodinsky’s Room by Rachel Rubinstein and Iain Sinclair, she speaks of visiting Poland and finding abandoned, overgrown Jewish cemeteries with no Jews living in the vicinity. The synagogues either gone or abandoned. It’s as if they never existed. Posso solo dire che l'ho amato, tantissimo. E quanto sono importanti testimonianze come queste, per ricordare e soprattutto per non silenziare mai quelle Voci. This is a well written well researched book but as Holocaust survivors begin to die it must be kept alive in peoples minds.

a b Eugene Davidson. The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8262-1045-6. p. 325 Herschel Grynszpan carried a revolver and thoughts of revenge with him as he walked through the streets of Paris on the morning of November 7, 1938. The 17-year-old German refugee had just learned that his Polish-Jewish parents, along with thousands of other Jews, had been herded into boxcars and deported from Germany. From the day Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, anti-Semitism had become encoded in the governmental policies of Nazi Germany. For years, Jews experienced state-sponsored discrimination and persecution, and Grynszpan had seen enough. On November 7 1938, a 17 year old German Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, enraged by the suffering of his parents, who had been expelled from Germany together with 12 000 other Jews, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot junior German diplomat Ernst vom Rath, who died three days later. Döscher, Hans-Jürgen (2000). "Reichskristallnacht" – Die Novemberpogrome 1938 ("'Reichskristallnacht': The November pogroms of 1938"), Econ, 2000, ISBN 3-612-26753-1, p. 131 As expected, this was a sobering but enlightening read. It was filled with first-person accounts of the night of Kristallnacht, and of the actions taken by the Nazi party, "regular" Germans, and other countries in the months and years following. Some of the information was new to me. The book contains maps showing the towns throughout Europe where synagogues were destroyed. That was heartbreaking to see.Daily Telegraph, 12 November 1938. Cited in Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. HarperCollins, 2006, p. 142. Döscher, Hans-Jürgen (1988). Reichskristallnacht: Die Novemberpogrome 1938 (in German). Ullstein. ISBN 978-3-550-07495-0.

The events of Kristallnacht represented one of the most important turning points in National Socialist antisemitic policy. Historians have noted that after the pogrom, anti-Jewish policy was concentrated more and more concretely into the hands of the SS. Moreover, the passivity with which most German civilians responded to the violence signaled to the Nazi regime that the German public was prepared for more radical measures.Johnson, Eric. The Nazi Terror: Gestapo, Jews and Ordinary Germans. United States: Basic Books, 1999, p. 117. Trueman, Chris. "Nazi Germany – dictatorship". Archived from the original on 6 March 2008 . Retrieved 12 March 2008. The pictures were taken by Nazi photographers during the pogrom in the city of Nuremberg and the nearby town of Fürth. They wound up in the possession of a Jewish-American serviceman who was deployed to Germany during the second world war. How he obtained the photos is uncertain; he never talked about them to his family.

Faludi, Christian (2013) Die "Juni-Aktion" 1938. Eine Dokumentation zur Radikalisierung der Judenverfolgung. (in German) Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus. ISBN 978-3-593-39823-5 In view of this being a totalitarian state a surprising characteristic of the situation here is the intensity and scope among German citizens of condemnation of the recent happenings against Jews. [69] That night 91 Jews were murdered, and 25,000-30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps. Lucas, Eric. "The sovereigns", Kibbutz Kfar Blum (Palestine), 1945, p. 171 cited in Gilbert, op.cit., p 67. The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA ( Sturmabteilung : commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth.On November 30 1939 the Jewish National Council for Palestine offered to take 10 000 German Jewish children into the Holy Land to be dispersed among the 250 Jewish agricultural and urban centres there.

JudenVermoegersabgabe" (The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies)". Archived from the original on 21 April 2006 . Retrieved 4 May 2006. This was a heartbreaking and salutary book to read. Last year it was the 80th anniversary of Kristellnacht or the Night of Broken Glass. Interview with Miriam Ron, Witness to the Events of Kristallnacht". The International School for Holocaust Studies. Archived from the original on 15 May 2017. -- "At 7:00 in the morning I was a student, and at 5:00, I was a criminal"We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. The Fortnite Holocaust Museum, a virtual museum based inside the videogame Fortnite, is set to feature a display featuring the Kristallnacht. [97] See also [ edit ]