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On November 7, 1938, a young Jew, enraged by his family's expulsion from Germany, walked into the German embassy in Paris and fired five shots at a junior diplomat. Three days later the diplomat was dead, and Germany was in the grips of skillfully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence.

In the early hours of November 10, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed, while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration ...

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On November 7, 1938, a young Jew, enraged by his family's expulsion from Germany, walked into the German embassy in Paris and fired five shots at a junior diplomat. Three days later the diplomat was dead, and Germany was in the grips of skillfully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence.

In the early hours of November 10, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed, while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. This was the moment when deliberately inflamed hatreds ignited nationwide destruction.

With rare insight and acumen, Martin Gilbert, one of the leading historians of our time, examines Kristallnacht — the Night of Broken Glass — and describes how the rest of the world reacted in its wake. His narration of that night and day of terror is chilling, vividly conveying its scale and intensity through more than fifty previously unpublished eyewitness testimonies and graphic newspaper accounts of the events as they unfolded. No other attack on Jews during the course of the Second World War was as widely reported by contemporary observers.

Kristallnacht marked the beginning of the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister fore-warning of the Holocaust. By setting the tone for the terrible war to follow, it shaped the second half of the twentieth century and continues to haunt us, almost seventy years later. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, this is aneye-opening study of one of the darkest chapters in human history.

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Michael R. Marrus
This is grimly familiar ground, but Gilbert has found some new material, consisting mostly of descriptions and recollections by people who lived through Kristallnacht. One of the world's most prolific historians -- he is the author of more than 80 works, including his most important achievement, his magisterial, multi-volume biography of Winston Churchill -- Gilbert brings to bear the historical method that has served so well in the past."
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An acclaimed Churchill biographer and Holocaust scholar, Gilbert makes a strong case in this elegant volume that Kristallnacht was the watershed moment that laid the groundwork for the Holocaust. Known as "the Night of Broken Glass," the "coordinated, comprehensive rampage" that began on the night of November 9, 1938, saw Nazi-inspired thugs ransack synagogues and Jewish-owned property across Germany and Austria. Gilbert maintains a tight focus on the individual experiences of Jewish men, women and children during the 24-hour spree of destruction, as well as on Germans and Austrians who rioted, opposed the riot or simply looked the other way. The book begins with a harrowing account of that night's events, using accounts from news sources of the day: "`Terrified children were turned sobbing out of their beds, which were then smashed to pieces.'" Gilbert devotes a chapter each to eyewitness accounts from Berlin and Vienna, where some of the worst destruction occurred. As Felix Rinde, then an Austrian-Jewish teenager, later wrote, "Jewish life in Vienna came to a virtual end." A third chapter offers similar accounts from other cities. Gilbert's commanding account then traces the origins of Kristallnacht in the years of mounting Jewish discrimination that began when Hitler came to power in 1933, and shows how Kristallnacht pointed the way toward the events to come. 8 pages of b&w photos; maps. (June 13) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780060570835
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 6/13/2006
  • Pages: 320
  • Series: Making History Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.78 (w) x 8.34 (h) x 1.05 (d)

Meet the Author

Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill's biographer and the author of eight acclaimed books on the Holocaust. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Foreword : the making history series 13
1 The night of broken glass 23
2 Eye-witnesses : Berlin 42
3 Eye-witnesses : Vienna 53
4 Eye-witnesses in every corner of the Reich 70
5 Bitter prelude 119
6 Harsh aftermath 139
7 Between good and evil 164
8 Escape and rescue 184
9 Last steps to destruction 229
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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 9, 2006

    Not to be enjoyed not to be ignored

    Martin Gilbert's prose is gripping. Do not start this book until you have time to complete the first one or two chapters. But, do not expect that upon completion you will have enjoyed the experience. Throughout Gilbert piles one story upon another and only at the end does the reader understand that the frustration with the book is not about whether it is good history, it is Gilbert's way to teach the reader just a tiny taste of what it had to be like as a Jew in Germany from 1938 to 1945. Nothing can prepare us for an experience where everything we have been taught growing up is simply not enough. Serving a country, doing well in school, being religious, raising a family, paying taxes -- none of it was enough to avoid the horrors of this beginning of the Holocaust. As I put the book down I realized I would never be the same but, I wondered what it must have been like for those who survived Kristallnacht to realize the world would never be the same? To realize that nothing they did, or did not do, would awaken them from a nightmare disturbed only occasionally by the sound of broken glass.

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