Kristallnacht Analysis

As stated above that Great Depression created harsh condition for Japan, it hit Germany especially hard. The country was still struggling for the recovery of the war and the loss of colonies, Germans began to look for a strong leader who could fix the country. Adolf Hitler promised to restore people’s national pride by making their country the leading nation. Hitler and his Nazi party used propaganda to spread out ideas of nationalism, he also used powerful public address system, careful staging and skilful architectural design. As an effective dictator, Hitler was at the centre of WWII in Europe and the Holocaust (genocide of about six million Jews by the Nazis during

The Holocaust was a great tragedy, but it didn't happen overnight. It was a long process of demeaning Jews as subhuman. This started as early as 1933 when Hitler first came to power. However, Kristallnacht, or The Night of the Broken Glass, was like the dam bursting. It was when the government of Germany encouraged its people to loot and burn Jewish shops, synagogues, and schools. In addition, many Jews were pulled out of their houses in the middle of the night and sent to concentration camps. In some towns so many of the men were sent to the camps that the women and children were forced to clean up the broken glass that littered the streets. Kristallnacht was a very significant point in the Holocaust,

Hermann Gauch was a German sociologist. In his book, New Foundation of Racial Science, he wrote, “The lips of Nordics are most expressive and look enticing and kissable. The trunks of all other races are more or less bent forward.” and, “Only the nordic race walks and stands fully upright. The crouching bodily bearing of the non-Nordic indicates lying-in-wait, perfidiousness and cunning attack.” (document 3). Gauch is saying that German people are “more expressive and look enticing” while Jews and other non-Aryan races are “perfidious and cunning”. He is telling people that Germans are heavenly and superior, but other races are ugly, evil and a threat. Gauch then says, “Non-Nordics are more or less equal to the animals or they form a … link to them. The non-Nordic thus occupies an intermediate position between the Nordic and the animal and ranks nexts to the man apes.” (document 3). As you can see, Jews are being compared to animals. Calling them, “more or less equal to the animals” and that they, “rank next to the man apes” makes people who read this believe that all other races are inferior to Germans. Making sure the people of Germany hated inferior races was a key part of Nazi ideology because it was easier to get away with horrible things, like the Holocaust, when the citizens started to agree with Hitler’s beliefs. This is one example of how the Nazi party built a racist state

After Germany lost World War I, it was in a national state of humiliation. Their economy was in the drain, and they had their hands full paying for the reparations from the war. Then a man named Adolf Hitler rose to the position of Chancellor and realized his potential to inspire people to follow. Hitler promised the people of Germany a new age; an age of prosperity with the country back as a superpower in Europe. Hitler had a vision, and this vision was that not only the country be dominant in a political sense, but that his ‘perfect race’, the ‘Aryans,’ would be dominant in a cultural sense. His steps to achieving his goal came in the form of the Holocaust. The most well known victims of the Holocaust were of course, the Jews.

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party used nationalism to great effect in Germany that spured the Second World World. After WWI, many Germans blamed the new government for accepting the unfair treaty as conditions became miserable. People who could not find jobs began to drift into the Communist and National Socialist parties established by Hitler. They decided that it was the necessary solution. In 1933, Hitler came to power as dictator of Germany and preached a racist brand of fascism. He promised to end the humiliating conditions caused by the German defeat in WWI. He knew how to win people's obedience and trust, through their fears and insecurities. He almost immediately got Germany back into the factories and began secretly building up army and weapons. His real motives were to expand German territory and dominate Europe and the whole world that became the prelude to another war.

After WWI, Germany fell into poverty. Everyday, lines of people were seen in the streets waiting to purchase bread. People were poor and desperate. Hitler saw this and used it. He gave people hope and the economy improved and he was announced chancellor of Germany in 1933. Government suspected he was unstable, but were convinced they could control him if necessary. Hitler secretly made a new police called the Nazis who were Hitler’s supporters and enforced the law at Hitler’s command. Quickly and unknowingly, the government was no longer in control of Hitler. Hitler had full power of Germany.

Firstly, the Nazi’s used Germany’s defeat during the First World War (which began in the summer of 1914 and ended in November 1918) to their advantage. WWI claimed many lives and of course changed the lives of those in Germany forever. The years after the First World War were to see the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, the most notorious character of the twentieth century. Hitler offered to the Germans that one day he would Germany great again. Hitler also provided a scapegoat to the people of Germany, saying that the reason why Germany was in great debt and had such high unemployment was because of the Jewish people. This appealed to the German’s because it meant that they’d have an easy way out rather than taking the blame upon themselves. After Hitler was appointed as chancellor of Germany the basic democratic structure of the Germany was weakened then abolished. This then created a sense of fear the German population, and they were too scared to fight back. The lives of many millions of people across Europe would be devastated as a result of the beliefs, policies and actions of the Nazis led by Hitler.

The end of the First World War left extreme poverty and unrest in Germany. Germany had been forced to pay huge amounts of money and goods in compensation. Many German lands was taken away (O’ Neal), which these losses in the war made people think that life was cheap and there was nothing to lose. Many people became desperate and wanted a change; therefore, Hitler came along and was a voice of hope for change that people wanted. Many believed that he was going to help them retrieve

World War II was a war fought over racist and inhumane ideologies that became popular because of the struggles countries suffered through the Great Depression. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party gained political seats in the German Reichstag following the October 29, 1929 stock market crash in America. It was an economic deficit that sent ripples across the Atlantic Ocean into Europe. People were giving up in the weak Weimar Republic that was set in place right after World War I. When Hitler and his men had the majority in government there was no one to stop them. Hitler was able to rule with powers he should not have been able to gain, but through the Great Depression people needed hope and to them that hope was Hitler. The influence Hitler and

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

Kristallnacht, a leading event to the Holocaust, was a turning point and an important event in history. Kristallnacht, literally translated to “Night of Crystals,” is also known as “Night of Broken Glass.” In 1938, violent anti-Jews invaded and destroyed Germany, and areas of Austria and Czechoslovakia. SA and Hitler Youth units throughout Germany and the annexed areas, destructed any Jewish-owned businesses, houses, synagogues, cemeteries, hospitals, and schools. Kristallnacht, a very important event in time, should be included and displayed in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Germany’s defeat during World War 1 left the country with unstable government and uncertain people. Adolf Hitler was a man with confidence, charisma, and the ability to make friends and influence people. Hitler tried to establish a sense of community in the recovery and targeted young people, the unemployed, and members of the lower middle class. Hitler’s ability to gain followers and rise to power was a positive thing for Germany until he began using that power to convince others to take part in the Holocaust. Although Hitler was influential in the Holocaust, his intentions were to make Germany a better, brighter place. Hitler gained followers by spreading a message of hope in a positive way, substantially helped the German people out of an

Life for Jewish people changed drastically between 1933 and 1939 in Germany. This was warranted by Jewish life and beliefs before 1933, Hitler’s rise to anti-Semitic Beliefs and Power,Kristallnacht ‘the night of the broken glass’ and Nuremburg Laws.

After World War One, otherwise known as the “Great War,” Germany was in a time of crisis and political instability. Because Germany lost the war, the treaty of Versailles forced Germany to not only be responsible for their own reprimands, but everyone who participated in the war (mainly repay France.) Germany was also humiliated by losing most of their army and territories due to this treaty. In addition, to add to the economic crisis of Germany, according to http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/hitlerpowerrev1.shtml “In 1929, the American Stock Exchange collapsed, and caused an economic depression. America called in all its foreign loans, which destroyed Weimar Germany. Unemployment in Germany rose to 6 million.” Hitler had become very interested in politics. He joined the “a member of the National Socialist German Workers ' Party,” otherwise known as the Nazi party.

Commonly thought to be the most evil man in all of modern history, Adolf Hitler ruled the country of Germany for twelve years. Although he ended up having unlimited power in Nazi Germany, he started his life the way most young men did in the early nineteenth century, a soldier in the Great War. He served his time in the German Military, and when the war ended he returned back to Germany. After the Great War Germany surrendered, and they were forced to sign the Treaty of Versaille. The treated blamed the entire war on Germany, and forced them to pay for all the damage, which was in the billions, caused in the war. Also in the treaty, Germany had to give away about ten percent of its land to surrounding european countries. A lot more was agreed upon in the treaty, but the main goal of it was to push all the blame of World War One into the German people. Germany spiraled into a terrible economic depression; the price of bread skyrocketed to a billion Mark, which was German currency at the time. Near the end of the war, the government was overthrown by the Communist Party of Germany, creating the Weimar Republic. The rough economic state of Germany caused the republic to be doomed from its start. In the midst of all the postwar struggles going on in Germany, Adolf Hitler returned home as a hero. “..He emerged from the trenches in World War I, where he showed bravery...” (Mitgang, C17). Hitler used the respect he built during the war to start his own party, the National