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

Web site "reconstructing" synagogues of Germany