History 317 Lecture: "Kristallnacht"
Acceleration of anti-Semitic actions in 1938
- background: Schacht dismissal, autarkic economic policies
- property registration; definition of "Jewish" businesses
- attorneys, physicians
Anschluss
Eichmann and the "Vienna model"
Expulsions of Foreign Jews
Expulsion of Polish Jews
Assassination in Paris: Herschel Grynspan and Ernst vom Rath
Hitler and Goebbels
Scale of the Destruction: stores, synagogues, (b, c, d), individuals
Aftermath and opinion
Billion Reichsmark fine
30,000 Jewish men in concentration camps