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Essay / Kristallnacht: a difficult time for the Holocaust - 668
Kristallnacht“On October 18, 1938, on Hitler's orders, more than 12,000 Jews were expelled from Germany. They were ordered to leave their home in one night and were only allowed to take one suitcase each. » (Gilbert 23) All the expelled Jews were put on trains by the Nazis and sent back. The nights of November 9 and 10, 1938 are known by many as “the night of broken glass.” This period is when the Nazis came out and attacked Jewish businesses, synagogues, and homes. Kristallnacht was a very difficult time for the Jewish people, due to the damage to their buildings and the loss of their culture and lives. . Shops were destroyed, synagogues and residential houses were burned. It is unclear why Hitler and the Nazis decided to destroy the homes and property of many Jewish families. Hospitals and schools were also ransacked while attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. More than 7,000 Jewish buildings were destroyed and more than 1,000 synagogues were burned. “The Night of Broken Glass” was an incredibly difficult time for the Jewish people. The Jewish people lost much of their religion during Kristallnacht. Martin Gilbert writes that no event in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was widely reported as it occurred, and that the accounts of foreign journalists working in Germany sent shockwaves around the world entire. On November 10 and 11, 1938, throughout Germany, Jewish men between the ages of sixteen and sixty were arrested at their homes and sent to one of three concentration camps: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, and Buc...... in the middle of Germany. paper... The reason why Roosevelt did this is because he felt that the Jewish people had been through a lot of torture and hard times, and he wanted to give them the opportunity for a better life. The fate of Jews who had been captured during Kristallnacht and sent to concentration camps was increasingly known and publicized. The Jewish people went through a very difficult time during Kristallnacht, their buildings were badly damaged and they lost their possessions. culture and life. The night of November 9-10, 1938 is known by many as “the night of broken glass.” At that time, the Jewish people were forced to live an unjust life. The Jewish people suffered much destruction of their buildings and lost their culture along the way. It is unfortunate that the Jewish population had to endure all the torture and neglect they suffered at the hands of Hitler and the Nazis..