The Holocaust And The Holocaust: Beer Hall Putsch

“Night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked the Jewish population and there homes. The name Kristallnacht comes from the litter of broken glass left on the streets after the war. The violence continued on November 10, and in some places acts of violence continued on for more and more days to pass. Although the events of the Night of Broken Glass only took place on the 9th of November 1938 and the number of assaults against the Jews had increased throughout the autumn season in 1938. Synagogues had been ruined, windows had been broken, and Jews had been driven from local areas, particularly in Franken, where the extreme anti-Semite, Julius Streicher was Gauleiter for the Nazi Party. On November 7, in Paris, a 17-year-old German
They were to intervene only if a fire threatened adjacent “Aryan” properties. November 9 was one of the Nazi Party’s most important red-letter days: on 9 November 1923 Hitler and his followers had tried to take over power in Bavaria at the so-called ‘Beer Hall Putsch’. As a result, Hitler was in Munich on 9 November 1938 in order to give his annual speech to the party’s leading figures and ‘old fighters’. Because of the death of Ernst vom Rath, Hitler’s speech was cancelled, and instead Joseph Goebbels gave an incendiary speech, where he lashed out at the German Jews. Presumably Goebbels took over the event for tactical reasons in order that Hitler could appear as innocent and unknowing of the later events. The extent of the destruction was actually worse than reported. Later estimates were that as much as 7,500 Jewish shops were looted, and there were a lot incidents of rape. This, in the twisted ideology of Nazism, was worse than murder, because the racial laws forbade intercourse between Jews and gentiles. The rapists were expelled from the Nazi Party and handed over to the police for prosecution. And those who killed Jews? They “cannot be punished,” according to authorities, because they were merely following