Kristallnacht

doi:10.1017/9781108913614.025

22 - Kristallnacht

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Alan E. Steinweis

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Mark Roseman and

Dan Stone

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Mark Roseman: Affiliation:
Indiana University
Dan Stone: Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London

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This chapter conveys the origins, course, impact, and consequences of Kristallnacht, locating the events of November 1938 in the longer-term trajectory of Nazi domestic and foreign policy; explores the extent and forms of popular participation in the violence and popular responses to the destruction; pursues the shorter- and longer-term impact of Kristallnacht for the victims (though emigration will be dealt with in Volume III); examines the shifts in Nazi policy in the wake of Kristallnacht, and the shifts of institutional power that accompanied it, and again considers the relationship between antisemitism and foreign policy.

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Kristallnacht violence pogrom Evian Conference Munich agreement Gestapo concentration camps riots SA and violence Hitler Youth and violence looting of Jewish property

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 461 - 483

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913614.025 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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