- Headline
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Jews Raided By Gestapo
- Sub-Headline
- Nazi Secret-Police Join Persecution; Modern Ghetto Planned
- Publication Date
- Saturday, November 12, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- BERLIN, Nov. 11. —(AP)— Germany's sudden nationwide outburst of anti-semitism developed tonight into a series of secret police raids upon Jews of the upper classes amid reports that the Ghetto of the middle ages was to be re-established in the modern nazi reich.
Official Germany pushed ahead its anti-semitic program with a warning to Jews abroad, especially in the United States, that their "behaviour" would affect future treatment[sic] of Jews in Germany.
Propaganda Miniser[sic] Paul Joseph Goebbels expressed annoyance at what he termed "misrepresentations and distortions" of happenings here, especially in the reports of "the Jewish press of North America."
"This will do no good to Jews in Germany," Goebbels wrote. "Rather the reverse. The German people are an anti-semitic people, and will not tolerate having their rights curtailed or being provoked by the parasitic Jewish race.
"The anti-German outside world
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Bibliography
Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Pehle, Walter H., ed. November 1938: From "Reichskristallnacht" to Genocide. New York: Berg, 1991.
Read, Anthony. Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror. New York: Times Books, 1989.
Schwab, Gerald. The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: Praeger, 1990.
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