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"Night of broken glass" in Berlin signals the beginning of the Holocaust...
"Night of broken glass" in Berlin signals the beginning of the Holocaust...
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November 10, 1938
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Nov. 10, 1938
* Crystal Night (Kristallnacht) (1st report)
* Night of Broken Glass - Persecution of Jews
A two-line banner headline announces what was to become known as Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass".
"GERMANS STORM JEWS!" "Wreck Stores, Burn Synagogues" with subhead: "Killing of Envoy Arouses Nazis To Riotous Fury". The article carries over to page 2.
This was a deliberate persecution of the Jews of Germany on November 9 and 10, carried out by paramilitary forces. German authorities looked on without intervening. The catalyst for the carnage was the assassination of German envoy Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a Polish Jew.
Early reports noted 91 Jews were murdered plus 30,000 Jewish men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps. Jewish homes, hospitals & schools were ransacked as buildings were demolished by sledgehammers, destroying 267 synagogues throughout Germany Austria & the Sudetenland and over 7000 Jewish business either destroyed or damaged.
This headline is larger than most reports in other American newspapers. The N.Y. Times of the same date had just a one column headline.
Complete in 30 pages, small binding holes at the blank spine, various archival mends to page 2 but fortunately no effect to the mentioned report, some older mends at margins, generally good.
Category: The 20th Century
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