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Violent Revenge On Jews in Germany For Murder of Diplomat
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- Thursday, November 10, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- Angry demonstrators took violent revenge on Jews in Germany today for the slaying of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Polish Jew. Crowds in Berlin charged a police guard and plundered shattered Jewish shops. Seven of Berlin's 20 synagogues were afire and others burned or were wrecked in Munich, Dresden, Vienna, Cologne and Hamburg
All of Vienna's 21 synagogues were damaged or destroyed and Vienna Jews said 22 of their number had committed suicide while Nazy fury avenged the death of Ernst Vom Rath, secretary of the Paris embassy, who died yesterday. He was shot Monday by Herschel Grynszpan, 17-year-old Jew who once lived in Germany.
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BERLIN, Nov. 10.—(AP)— Propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels this afternoon issued a brief appeal to the German populace to desist from further anti-Jewish demonstrations after synagogues in many cities had been burned, wrecked or badly damaged.
"The justifiable and understandable indignation of the German people over the cowardly Jewish murder of a German diplomat in Paris has resulted during the past night in extensive demonstrations,' said Goebbels.
He referred to the killing of Ernst Vom Rath, secretary of the Paris embassy, by a 17-year-old Polish Jew who had lived in Germany.
Telephoned reports from many parts of Germany showed that anti-Jewish violence, beginning early today, was nationwide.
Seven of Berlin's 20 synagogues
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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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