The Racial State-Reichkristallnacht Flashcards
When was Reichkristallnacht?
9-10th November 1938
What was the Reichkristallnacht?
Jewish homes and businesses were looted and vandalised, synagogues set ablaze and thousands of Jews arrested, beaten up and killed
Who was the Reichkristallnacht orchestrated by?
Joseph Goebbels who gave instructions to Nazi officials to organise violence but make it appear it wasn’t by Nazis as they had been instructed not to wear uniforms
What was the public opinion of the Reichkristallnacht?
Many German people were horrified by the destruction and in Leipzig reports people were ‘benumbed and aghast’
What was the aftermath of the Reichkristallnacht?
The Decree Excluding Jews from German Economic Life issued on 12th November and the Aryanisation of Jewish businesses was accelerated
