Kristallnacht
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KRISTALLNACHTBy: Geoffrey Fallon
Byron Ayala
&
Fabricio Garcia
WHAT WAS KRISTALLNACHT????????
A massive attack on Jews by the Nazisor The Night of Broken Glass.
HOW DID THIS START?
a reaction to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath
Was a member of the German embassy staff
Ernst vom Rath’s death reached Hitler and his
advisors
They tried to turn Germany against the Jew’s
WHY WASN’T THE GOVERNMENT INVOLVED?
They were not aware
Nazis arrested Jews or just killed them
WHERE DID IT TAKE PLACE?
German Reich
Sent Jew’s to Zbaszyn
WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?
November 9, 1938
Carried on to next day
Ended November 10, 1938
Damages
•91 Jews killed
•267 Synagogues burned down
•30,000 Jewish men arrested and sent to concentration camps
WORK CITED
Google images.com: https://
www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
Fold3.com:
http://www.fold3.com/page/83002459_kristallnachtth
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/
Aish.com: http://www.aish.com/ho/o/48956531.html
Historylearningsite.co.uk: http://
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kristallnacht_1938.ht
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