ON THIS DATE: 25th Anniversary celebrations,Fall of the Berlin Wall... On 9 November 2014, Berlin celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, with dignitaries from around the world in attendance for an evening celebration around the Brandenburg Gate.Europeans celebrate this together with the unified Democratic German Nation with joy. But lets not forget the Kristallnacht night when Nazism and Fascism and others with Brown prejudice showed its true face 9–10th of November 1938. Kristallnacht Part of the Holocaust Location:Nazi Germany and Austria (then part of Germany) Kristallnacht German English: Crystal Night), also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnacht, Pogromnacht, and November pogrome , was a pogrom (a series of coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.Over 1,000 synagogues were burned (95 in Vienna alone) and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged. Martin Gilbert writes that no event in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was so widely reported as it was happening, and the accounts from the foreign journalists working in Germany sent shock waves around the world.The Times wrote at the time: No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of blackguardly assaults on defenseless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday.The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew living in Paris. Kristallnacht was followed by additional economic and political persecution of Jews, and is viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germanys broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and The Holocaust.....
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:49:23 +0000
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