Reichskristallnacht & Emigration Flashcards
What is the context??
Jews became subject to increased levels of persecution - 1933-1938
Anti-Semitic Legislation, Propaganda, Terror State
Many Jews could still carry on with relative normality but..
Ernst vom Rath (German diplomat) shot by a Jew in Paris - 9th November
National retaliation in Germany - Reichskristallnacht
What followed it and what was it??
Night of Broken Glass - 9-10th Nov 1938
Homes burned and business looted
Synagogues
Thousands beaten, killed, imprisonment and sent to concentration camps
What were the results of the night??
91 jews killed
Thousands injured
Damage to shops and buildings and vandalsim was purely vandalism.
Fire brigade was there to only stop the fire from reaching aryan buildings
Orders SS not to intervene and 20k - 30k jews held in prevenative detention
What was the view of this??
Uncontrollable outburst from anti - semetic radicalist
Goering told to “sort it out”
SA and SS told not to wear uniforms
Used death of Vom Rath as excuse.
SA and SS executed this and told to make it look like Nazis didnt do it
What was the propaganda about this??
‘The National Soul has boiled over’
9th November 1933 - Munich Putsch
Goebbels aim was to please Hitler by marking the occasion with a spectacular event
What was the impact of the night??
Leipzig - American Consul said Crowds of people ‘benumbed and aghast’
Berlin - British official: ‘not met a single German from any walk of life who does not disapprove to some degree of what has occurred.’
Goering prevented insurance companies from paying Jews
‘Decree for the Restoration of the Street Scene’ - Jews made to pay for cost of repairs
Jewish community to pay 1 billion marks to cover damage to economy Decree Excluding Jews from German Economic Life - 12th November:
Acceleration of Aryanisation of Business
What was the view on emigration??
Hitler wanted Germany free from jews
Emigration was seen as solution
