Exposure to Holocaust Memorial in Paris (until August 30, 2009) presents Nazi Germany with a big zoom on an event: Kristallnacht.
What's this?
The "Night of Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht in German) refers to the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 which unleashed a wave of violence against Jews in Germany and Austria.
This explosion of violence took pretext for the murder of a secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynzpan, a young Polish Jew of German origin. Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, gave the instructions following the Nazi party: loot, set fires, destroy Jewish institutions and private property of the community, pretending to a spontaneous movement of the population.
The pogrom of the "Crystal Night" has the objective of pushing the German Jews to flee en masse. The objective is achieved. The number of potential migrants increases dramatically, but the borders remain closed.
If you can make you the Memorial, you will find practical information by clicking on the image. Otherwise, exposure is partly visible on the site of the Memorial of the Shoah with archive footage (the fire Bamberg Synagogue), the testimony of Erich Elkan, who witnessed the "Kristallnacht", photographs and explanatory texts all visible in the exhibition.
To learn more about Nazi Germany, to complete the course of your teacher, go up on the site by clicking here for the texts of the exhibition and
here to view the documents.
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