Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction (Making History)

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GermanNotes, "Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass". Archived from the original on 19 April 2005 . Retrieved 6 March 2009. , retrieved 26 November 2007 The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA ( Sturmabteilung : commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth. Gordon, Sarah Ann (1984). Hitler, Germans, and the Jewish Question. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-10162-0. Williams, Rob (26 January 2014). "Tom Perkins: Billionaire venture capitalist ridiculed after writing letter comparing the treatment of rich Americans to the Holocaust". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015 . Retrieved 27 January 2014.

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Schwab, Gerald (1990). The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. Praeger. p.14. ISBN 9780275935764. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021 . Retrieved 22 December 2016. ...vom Rath joined the NSDAP (Nazi party) on July 14, 1932, well before Hitler's ascent to power Gruner, Wolf; Ross, Steven Joseph, eds. (2019). New Perspectives on Kristallnacht. Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-61249-616-0. ; see online excerpt also online review Pehle, Walter H. (1988). Der Judenpogrom 1938: Von der "Reichskristallnacht" zum Völkermord (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-596-24386-6. 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] Our German Cousins: Anglo-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1974) by John Mander, p. 219

After the Kristallnacht, Salvador Allende, Gabriel González Videla, Marmaduke Grove, Florencio Durán and other members of the Congress of Chile sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler denouncing the persecution of Jews. [77] Kristallnacht, literally, "Night of Crystal," is often referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass." The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938. This wave of violence took place throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops. Krefeld, Stadt (1988). Ehemalige Krefelder Juden berichten uber ihre Erlebnisse in der sogenannten Reichskristallnacht. Krefelder Juden in Amerika. Vol.3. Cited in Johnson, Eric. Krefeld Stadt Archiv: Basic Books. p.117.Bernd Nellessen, "Die schweigende Kirche: Katholiken und Judenverfolgung", in Büttner (ed) Die Deutschen und die Judenverfolgung im Dritten Reich, p. 265, cited in Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners (Vintage, 1997). a b Taylor, Alan (19 June 2011). "World War II: Before the War". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Lewis, Geraint (May 2010). "Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/69100 . Retrieved 29 April 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required) Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms". Online exhibitions, special topics. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008 . Retrieved 20 May 2008.