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Kristallnacht


Event Leading Up to Kristallnacht

Herschel Grynszpan

Story date: 28 March 1921~ May 8, 1945

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Grynszpan's Defense

The Homosexual Theory

Paris to Berlin

Grynszpan versus Goebbels

Fact or Fiction?

Grynszpan Family

Introduction

Story date: November 9 - 10, 1938.

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"Nazis Slaughter Millions of European Jews."

Oberramstadt, Germany, November 9-10, 1938

New York Times

Story date: 1938

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After the Night of Broken Glass

Selma Zwienicki

After~Iwan van Oosten

After~Jettie Fischler

Czestochowa. Jewish Cemetery Devastated by the Nazis.

Old Synagogue in the Town of Orle Devastated by the Nazis.

Destruction of Synagogues

Joachim Schneeweiss

Hate Letter

Lynda Ben-Menashe, b. 1964, Sydney, Australia.

ALBERT EINSTEIN to leave Nazi Germany

Julius Streicher (1885-1946)

Story date: 1885-1946

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Physician's Photos are a Haunting Reminder of the Holocaust

Walter Sommers

The Boy Who Started a War

Johanna Gerechter Neumann Born: 1930, Hamburg, Germany

Ernst vom Rath

Story date: 3 June 1909–9 November 1938

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Passport of a Jewish woman stamped with - Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht

Gottrf. Schwab

‘I shall make for them a holy place.’

Refugees Flood into Other Nations

“Jews are not welcomed here,”

Eye Witness Accounts

A Time of Terror Accounts

Lisl Schick

Stories out of broken glass

Susan's Story : Nuremberg, 1938

Orders to the Gestapo Regarding Kristallnacht

Painting survives the Night of Broken Glass in Nazi Germany November 1938

By Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D.

One Man’s Story

Hitler 'led henchmen' in Kristallnacht riots