Kristallnacht

Contents  

Introduction

• What is Kristallnacht? 
• Heydrich Orders Policy of Violence 
• Apathy in the Western World
• The Legacy of Kristallnacht

Fact Sheet

• Leo Baeck (1873-1956)
• Josef Goebbels (1897-1945)
• Hermann Goering (1893-1946)
• Herschell Grynszpan (1821-19?)
• Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942)
• Ernst Vom Rath (19?-1938)

Documents

• Heydrich's Instructions, November 1938 Riots of Kristallnacht
• Telegrams

Eyewitness Accounts and Reminiscences 

• A Letter by a Firefighter
• A Personal Memoir by Michael Bruce
• Kristallnacht at the Dinslaken Orphanage
• Reminiscences By Yitzhak S. Herz Speech Delivered in Cologne Synagogue

Epilogue

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