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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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thought people will get tired of this mustachioed nutcase

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

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

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

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

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

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hundreds of people died during Kristallnacht and in its immediate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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