- Headline
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Nazi Progrom Against Jews Arouses British
- Sub-Headline
- Resentment Threatens To Halt Chamberlain's Efforts to Obtain Peace
- Publication Date
- Saturday, November 12, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- London, Nov. 12 (AP)—British resentment at Germany's widespread campaign against Jews threatened today to halt Prime Minister Chamberlain's laborious efforts to forge a lasting peace in Europe.
The British government's swift reaction to the burning and looting of Jewish property in Berlin and other German cities indicated Britain might yet find occasion to quarrel with the nation she narrowly missed fighting two months ago.
The indignation at the most recent anit-Jewish outburst in Germany will be focussed[sic] in parliament Monday when Major Clement R. Attlee, labor party leader, asks the government for information on the attacks.
Colonial Claims
It was believed certain that discussion of Germany's colonial claims—the thorny problem which Chamberlain proposed to tackle—would be seriously hindered by the latest example of Germany's treatment of her own "minority" problem.
Sir Archibald Sinclair, liberal party leader, said in an address at Northampton last night that the German campaign against Jews showed that Britain could not honorably turn over to Germany "any of those primitive peoples in Africa."
It was understood George Ogilvie-Forbes, British charge d'affaires in Berlin, already had been instructed to seek an explanation of an article in Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbel's newspaper Der Angriff suggesting British politicians were implicated in the assassination of the German diplomat, Ernest vom Rath, in Paris last Monday by a young Jew.
The wife of a cabinet minister added her voice to the swelling chorus of denunciation of nazi Germany's violent sweep upon the Jews.
Mrs. Walter Elliot, who quit active participation in liberal party affairs when she married the conservative minister of health in 1934, declared at an Olympia reception:
"It is impossible to read of happenings of the last three or four days in central Europe without feeling we must be back again in the middle ages. It is appalling, frightening, terrifying that the whole spiritual thought of the world should be subjected to this doctrine of force.". - History Unfolded Contributor
- Randall S.
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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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