L24: Development of Persecution (violent)

Question 1

causes of Kristallnacht

Answer 1

• Gr born Jewish (Herschel Grynszpan) murdered ambassador, Ernst vom Rath bc sister face discrimination in Gr -> Nazi government using this op to seek justice and launch a night of antisemitic violence by ordering a multiple attacks on Jewish synagogues, business and shops b/w the 9-10 Nov 1938 = Kristallnacht (night of broke glass)

Question 2

impacts of Kristallnacht

Answer 2

• 7500 shops/ business destroyed or damaged
• 30000 Jews -> concentration camp
• ~100 jews= killed

-`120,000 Jews left Gr b/w Kristallnacht + outbreak of WW2

Question 3

laws introduced late 1938 impacted Jewish people

Answer 3

• laws to deprive Jews of property + many Jewish business = transferred to ‘Aryan’ ownership
• further strides in removing Jews from public life
• expel Jewish children attending Gr school
• lost right to hold driver license
• restrict access to public transport
• x admittance to theatre, cinema, concert halls

Question 4

Madagascar plan

Answer 4

• initial solution to the Jewish problem
• mass evacuation/ deportation of 4mil Jews over 4 years
• financed by confiscating Jewish property
• Feb 1942, plan was completely shelved and replaced in public policy by the “evacuation to the east” (ghettos)

Question 5

why ghettos were established

Answer 5

• to segregate and control Jews and detain them from the rest of the pop
• invasion of Poland in sept 1939 -> 3mil Jews under Nazi control
• temporary holding spaces
• hope Jews would die out