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Kristallnacht demonstrates both the escalating violence agains Jews in Nazi Germany and the dangers of being a bystander.

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Transcript

00:03

Ah, Kristallnacht it sounds like the title of a Christmas song doesn't it

00:07

if only...so we know that Hitler did his utmost to drive the half a million Jews [Hitler appears]

00:12

who resided in Germany elsewhere during the 1930s and about 40,000 Jews fled to

00:17

other parts of Europe when Hitler came to power causing immigration to drop off

00:20

by the middle of the decade there were a couple of reasons for this first major [Man discussing emmigration decrease]

00:25

immigrant destinations like the US and the countries that were a part of the

00:29

British Commonwealth didn't particularly want to rehome a bunch of German Jews

00:33

second, many Jews hoped that Hitler was a passing phase for Germany surely they

00:38

thought people will get tired of this mustachioed nutcase

00:41

but then came Kristallnacht or for those who aren't fluent in German the night of [Glass smashing]

00:46

the broken glass while on November 9 1938 paramilitary forces in German

00:52

civilians carried out an organised massacre against the Jews of Germany in

00:56

Austria the governmental authorities did nothing to stop the violence because duh [German soldiers appear looking confused]

01:00

they were Nazis and they were in on the whole thing historians estimate that

01:04

hundreds of people died during Kristallnacht and in its immediate

01:07

aftermath about 30,000 Jews were arrested and thrown into concentration

01:12

camps... tens of thousands of Jewish homes synagogues businesses hospitals and

01:16

schools were vandalized demolished or burned yeah we really wanted it to be a [Group of people dancing]

01:21

simple Christmas Carol - well the Jews of Germany and Austria took the hint

01:24

about 36,000 escaped from the shadow of the Nazi regime in 1938 and another

01:30

77,000 fled in 1939 while finding a place to emigrate too, proved enormously

01:36

difficult for many Jews the majority of German Jews had left their homeland on [Ship attempting to escape to european countries]

01:40

October 1941 when Hitler put the kibosh on Jewish emigration.. well Kristallnacht

01:46

served as a kind of test of the German people Hitler wanted to see if your [Man frustrated while working and smashes laptop]

01:50

average Johann would stand up for the Jews in the face of terrible violence or

01:54

just sit back with a bowl of popcorn and watch the show

01:57

Hitler would say his master race passed the test spectacularly the rest of us

02:02

count Kristallnacht as a very impressive fail....[German soldiers saluting to Hitler]

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