Language:
German
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
107 (1988) 94-110
Keywords:
Kristallnacht, 1938
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
Nazi anti-Jewish policy intensified in 1938 after the dismissal of the Finance Minister Hjalmar Schacht who opposed the elimination of the Jews from commerce for economic reasons. In Austria, antisemitic excesses after the Anschluss encouraged the preparation of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. Gives details on the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany in October 1938 and vom Rath's murder as the pretext for the pogrom. More than 1,000 synagogues were burnt, about 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and 26,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps. Jewish communities had to pay one billion Reichsmarks in expiation for Grynszpan's act. Western European countries barely protested, and the German population regretted the destroyed Jewish property more than the physical attacks on the Jews.
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