After Kristallnacht: An Infamous Press Conference ‘Justifies’ Terror, 1938
The night of November 9-10, 1938, that came to be known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) remains one of the most shocking eruptions of violence, outside of wartime, that modern Europe has ever seen. In the course of several hours, as German paramilitary thugs and more than a few non-Jewish citizens rampaged through cities in Germany and Austria, destroying Jewish-owned stores, torching centuries-old synagogues and killing scores of innocents, the world was given its most graphic glimpse yet of the true, depraved nature of Hitlers Reich.
State-sanctioned persecution of the Jews in Germany already intense by the mid-1930s was, with Kristallnacht, no longer merely legislative. The violence implicit in the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, for example, that had stripped Jews of German citizenship was now an explicit tool in a war against Jews, homosexuals, Slavs, pacifist Catholics and other non-Aryans and convenient scapegoats. With arson, vandalism and open murder the green-lit expressions of brutality in Hitlers Germany, both World War II and the escalation of the Final Solution were inevitable.
The very next day, in fact, on November 11, 1938, both Hitler and his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, appeared at a press conference for foreign correspondents in Munich an event chronicled, in color, by Hitlers personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger. There, displaying a cynicism extraordinary even for a high-ranking Nazi, Goebbels characterized the Kristallnacht pogrom as an understandable, spontaneous eruption of Teutonic anger against Jews:
It is an intolerable state of affairs [Goebbels told members of the press] that within our borders and for all these years hundreds of thousands of Jews still control whole streets of shops, populate our recreation spots and, as foreign apartment owners, pocket the money of German tenants, while their racial comrades abroad agitate for war against Germany and gun down German officials.
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yurbud
(39,405 posts)BillyRibs
(787 posts)It was only after the world Zionist Organization declared their world wide trade embargo of German Made goods, and a German diplomat, Ernst Eduard vom Rath was assassinated in Paris in 1938 by a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, which provided the rage for Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. This brought back to all German Memory the Stab in the Back Hitler Complained about so Bitterly, and so often. as to why the Germans lost WW1. "The Balfoure Declaration" (Google it) It was the Plan to Bring the US into the War on the side of England and France. and it Publicizing was a bane to all German born Jewish People. When Kristallnacht Happened Goebbles was in Negotiations with the world Zionist Organization to end the trade embargo and Moved quickly to quash the spontaneous violent outbreak, This was in hopes it would not derail the negotiations. Was Hitler a Bastard? hell Yeah! that goes without saying, but did the Zionist sacrifice German Jews in exchange for the land of Palestine after the war? You bet your ass they did. This had been the Goal of the World Zionist Organization.
And the uninformed Germans? they were Played like a well tuned Fiddle, By the Bankers, war mongers, The More Radical (if you can say that) of the Party, the WZO and the 1% of their day.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)The Germans, especially Goebbles, were just victims by a "World Zionist Organization" plot? This has to be the best revisionist history I have seen written here.
BillyRibs
(787 posts)Now go back and read it again before you start with any name calling.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)Explain it.
BillyRibs
(787 posts)What you keep failing to read is My only editorial of the post. The rest of the post is factual and not up for dispute. My editorial is the last lines. Not all Jewish were Zionist. But Zionist seemed unconcerned about German Juwish population except when it suited them. Oh say like the Transfer agreement.
And the uninformed Germans? they were Played like a well tuned Fiddle, By the Bankers, war mongers, The More Radical (if you can say that) of the Party, the WZO and the 1% of their day.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)Kristallnacht scarred Jews all across Germany and surrounding areas. So, what was your point of "the other side" is?
BillyRibs
(787 posts)A lot of people share in the Guilt. Some more than others But none of the guilty should go unrecognized.
BTW I also finished the Post.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)Who shares more guilt here?
"BTW I also finished the Post"
Do what now?
cali
(114,904 posts)Period. The historical record supports that- including what we KNOW Goebbels said and did. Trying to transfer blame to Jews and Zionists and "International Bankers" (cute code, that), is nothing but holocaust revisionism as any student of the era knows.
cali
(114,904 posts)Ugly, insane and just historically wrong.
I blame it on Powers that had greed and Hate on their Agenda! The WZO wanted LAND, The Nazis hated, The Bankers were looking for their Payday, the wealthy wanted to sell guns and arms, The German people were Played, Jesus Someone comes up with a historical view contrary to the Traditional and you all shout Hater! What I am saying is that all blame does not rest upon one head! their is much to go around. The Lesson to be learned even in our day. is don't keep looking for a "Hitler", look at all the Crap happening in the back ground, at the same time Things like finance and back room deal making. Because if you fail to do this It will all happen over and over again.
cali
(114,904 posts)sorry, but this is classic stuff that you're posting. Hardly new. Hardly something you came up with. It's part and parcel of the whole "Jews caused the Holocaust". Sometimes, nowadays, that's modified with the substitution of "Zionists" for Jews, or "Bankers". And btw, the murder of von Rath was a handy excuse, not a real cause-
Everything you are parroting is part of classic Holocaust denial as has been documented. Here you go. You're welcome.
'International Jewry' caused the Kristallnacht pogrom
Holocaust Deniers Say:
'International Jewry' funded Herschel Grynszpan's assassination of Ernst vom Rath and then used vom Rath's death as an excuse to start the Kristallnacht pogrom. They did so for the purpose of embarrassing the German government and to get international sympathy to open the doors for Jewish immigration, especially to Palestine.
Who the Holocaust deniers say who was behind the pogrom
Ingrid Weckert, a German Holocaust denier, plays down or denies the crimes of the Third Reich. She is best known for her manipulation of the historical record on Kristallnacht. Her book, Flashpoint: Kristallnacht 1938: Instigators, Victims and Beneficiaries 1 is full of crude and offensive antisemitic remarks and praise for Hitler's Third Reich.
Weckert absolved all the leading Nazis of any blame for the pogrom and suggested that it was master-minded by "World Jewry" in the hope that such violence would reflect badly on the blameless Nazi regime and cause it to fall. Weckert writes: "Ultimately it was not the Jews but the Germans who suffered most as a result of this event." In fact, the name of her article on Kristallnacht is called "'Crystal Night' 1938: The Great Anti-German Spectacle."2
David Irving, whom the High Court in London declared to be a Holocaust denier, racist and antisemite, seconded Weckert's assertion that the assassination of vom Rath was a Jewish conspiracy. In his book Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996), Irving suggested that there was "some frail evidence that LICA, the Paris-based International League against Anti-Semitism" had a hand in the assassination. However, he provided no evidence for this insinuation.3
In Hitler's War (1991) Irving explained: "Revisionist historians now argue that the Nazis had fallen into a Zionist trap. The Haganah officials . . . had hinted that it would serve their interests if things were made hot for Germany's Jews to accelerate Jewish emigration to Palestine. It deserves comment that Grynszpan, although a destitute youth, was able to reside in a hotel in 1938 and purchase a handgun for 250 francs, and that his defense counsel Moro Giafferi was the best that the money of the International League against Anti-Semitism ('LICA') could buy; LICA's Paris office was around the corner from Grynszpan's hotel."4 Irving failed to offer any evidence for this theory. There is, in fact, no evidence for this theory.
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http://www.hdot.org/en/learning/myth-fact/kristal3.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kristallnacht_1938.htm
http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/docs/Kristallnacht/Grynszpan.html
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hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)Whoever you are, and whatever you think you're doing, this is pure antisemitism .. nothing more and surely nothing less.
Anybody have a can of Trollbegone around?
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struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)"The other side of the story" is ugly rightwing propaganda. No "World Zionist Organization" was responsible for Kristallnacht. No WZO planned Kristallnacht in order to "sacrifice German Jews in exchange for the land of Palestine." No WZO played uninformed Germans "like a well tuned fiddle." This is way over the top. It's more than disgusting: it's neo-Nazi bilge
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)In all the years I have been on DU, I have only ever seen one other Holocaust denier/revisionist, Wizard777. While there are certainly more anti-Semites lurking about, this was a special level of hate.
cali
(114,904 posts)they don't last long though and Skinner is great at responding quickly and decisively.
A few years ago there was a real burst of anti-semitism here. Skinner did a great job at cleaning them out.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)Hopefully will clear out a few more currently lurking in the shadows, some don't even bother with the shadows though.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Man, a day late and a dollar short, that's me. Always the last to know.