KRYSTALLNACHT 'Night of Broken Glass' Nov. 9, 1938 Germany, 80 Yrs Ago

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Nov. 9- 10, 1938, in a violent incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. German Jews had been subjected to repressive policies since 1933, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

Prior to the Kristallnacht pogrom, Nazi policies had been primarily nonviolent, but after it conditions for German Jews grew increasingly worse. During World War II (1939-45), Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called “Final Solution” to the what they referred to as the “Jewish problem,” and carried out the systematic murder of some 6 million European Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust. https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/kristallnacht
SA, Sturmabteilung, 'Brownshirts' Nazi Paramilitary (1920-1934) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
Herschel Grynszpan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Grynszpan

[rurallib]

1. 80 years ago, 1938

In 1933, Hitler became leader of Germany and Roosevelt became leader of the US.
what a difference!

[appalachiablue]

2. 1933 was major for politics internationally. Thank god for FDR.

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3. "conservative businessmen of the time" did not agree with your assessment of FDR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

[byronius]

4. Thank you Smedley Butler.

Smedley Butler

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5. Bless Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, the 'Fighting Quaker' from Penn.

who wouldn't go along with the plot and testified to Congress in 1934. FDR didn't charge the business leaders involved; he had his reasons, clever man.

Wealthy steel industrialist Fritz Thyssen financially supported anti communist and fascist groups in Germany, foremost the early Hitler-led Nazi movement prior to Krystallnacht in 1938.





Fritz Thyssen, German industrialist and early Nazi supporter
https://spartacus-educational.com/GERthyssen.htm

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6. The Reichstag Fire in Berlin, Germany Feb. 1933 & Leipzig Trial

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The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building (home of the German parliament) in Berlin on 27 February 1933, one month after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Hitler's government stated that Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was found near the building and attributed the fire to communist agitators in general—though in 1933, a German court decided that van der Lubbe had acted alone, as he claimed.

After the fire, the Reichstag Fire Decree was passed. The Nazi Party used the fire as evidence that communists were plotting against the German government, and the event is considered pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. The term Reichstag fire has come to refer to false flag actions perpetrated or facilitated by an authority to promote their own interests through popular approval of retribution or retraction of civil rights.

Hitler urged President Paul von Hindenburg to pass an emergency decree to suspend civil liberties and pursue a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communist Party of Germany. After passing the decree, the government instituted mass arrests of communists, including all of the Communist Party parliamentary delegates. With their bitter rival communists gone and their seats empty, the Nazi Party went from being a plurality party to the majority, thus enabling Hitler to consolidate his power.

In February 1933, three men were arrested who were to play pivotal roles during the Leipzig Trial, known also as the "Reichstag Fire Trial": Bulgarians Georgi Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev and Blagoy Popov. The Bulgarians were known to the Prussian police as senior Comintern operatives, but the police had no idea how senior they were: Dimitrov was head of all Comintern operations in Western Europe. The responsibility for the Reichstag fire remains an ongoing topic of debate and research. Historians disagree as to whether van der Lubbe acted alone, as he said, to protest the condition of the German working class. More, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Coming to a city near you?

I wonder. It may not even be Jews, it could be another group. If it is Jews, again, I doubt many will worry or even get upset to a noticeable degree. I doubt, at this point, it will be on such a large scale, and unlikely to be government sponsored, but, frankly, I feel we are living on borrowed time.

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8. Kick