Hitler and the Nazis were the masterminds of the Holocaust. He hated the Jews. He blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War 1. He believed that the German race was better than any other race and that Germans deserve to live Hitler wanted to kill off all the “imperfect” people, who were non-Germanic. Some of the victims were the Jews, Gypsies, and people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses.On the night of November 9, 1938, gangs of Nazi officers on the streets of Germany and attacked the Jews. Thousands of synagogues, Jewish businesses and homes were destroyed. Many Jews were tortured, sent to concentration camps and many were killed. This event came to be called Kristallnacht meaning the Night of Broken Glass because of the broken store window that covered Germany’s streets. The cause for this violence was the assassination of Ernst Rath, the Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, by a Jewish boy named Herschel. Kristallnacht lasted till November 10, 1938. This was the beginning of the Holocaust.
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