The Night of Broken Glass

This video to my left shows a lot of information and a lot of images that had occured on the event of Kristallnacht.I have watched this video a few times myself and find it is very informative and has a lot of exciting pictures                                 

The Life of a Killer

November 8,1938
2:35 P.M
My leader Adolf Hitler has just given me orders to come up with a plan to make a speech that will turn all of Germany against the Jews tomorrow,so I have to work fast.I shall come up with the best speech so that I will impress Hitler and so I can also teach "those filthy sons of bitches" a lesson.It doesn't matter because they are of no use to us in anything such as wars,our community,our enviorment,or anything really useful to our society.I will use my keen sense of perspective to try to make my leader proud and hopefully keep me as his highest member by his side.


November 9,1938
8:00 A.M
It is about eight o'clock and I am about to find my leader so that we can go over my speech together and possibly make a few adjustments.It will make Hitler proud and be very good against the German minds about the Jews and to make them vanquish all of the Jews.He used a very persistent method that might take several years,I will be in first command and I will be the leader above all of Germany.And better yet,maybe even the world.


November 9,1938
2:47 P.M
This has gone great,Hitler said that my speech will be magnificent and needs no corrections.I think I will do great in the speech in a few hours,I will blow the minds of all of Germany!I am on my way to my speech...I think my speech was perfect,there was only cheers,not a single boo was heard during my speech.I think the speech took to their liking.I have just been informed by Hitler as I walked off the stage,he says that he wants me to make a private speech later this night to try to riot and boycott all of the Jewish businesses and then to destroy them,burn em' to the ground and even demolish the whole thing all at once.


November 9,1938
7:27 P.M
We just attacked all of the buildings,some wise guys tried to ruin our operation right when we got in the middle of it,so we had to take them out.We did,we only lost about twenty men,out of about 3000,so it was no big deal.We are going to do thew same thing tomorrow except we are spreading out our ranges of attacks and we are going to go for some churches to.


November 10,1938
9:30 P.M
We are about ready to attack the stores,we have our weapons and our armor and are marching down the street...We have just started and now we are at like our forty-sixth building or so and we are doing fine,no more wannabe-rescuers trying to stop us tonight,so it is all working out fine.


November 11,1938
11:28 A.M
We did fine last night,.I personally think that we did better the night before but this will have to work for now,that is unless Hitler wants us to do another attack on the Jewish businesses in another wider range of buildings.I am going to meet with Hitler,he is going to rack up on all of the houses and shops and businesses and churches that we destroyed and going to see if it met to his expectations.This is the last time I will right in this journal for a while.So for now,goodbye.




A swastik is used to represent the Nazis
and their killing of millions of Jews.





Joseph Goebbels(Above),Minister of Propaganda and Hitlers second in command was the person and the reason that all of Kristallnacht and most of the Holocaust had happened

Just Stand and Watch

I am very sorry about what I did, I should have done something about this, I could have done something about what the Nazis were doing to do to all of the Jews because of all of the bad things they had done to all of Jews because of some man who wanted to be in power just to get in charge.

So I was waiting on this balcony on my rooftop one night, it was a very cloudy night, full of blackness, as I was approaching the door to go back into my house, as I heard words in German, and they sounded like this,” come on men, only a little while longer, we just have to destroy a few buildings and shops so that Hitler will approve of us and maybe even give us a little time off for our family and friends.” But I was not sure what to do, I saw the other men running on rooftops and then I heard gunshots, then there was blood, everywhere...I was really scared now, I didn't know if they were going to find me and kill me or even worse, bring me to Hitler and have him torture me. I was not sure what to do, then I saw them breaking and shooting windows and bricks, then I witnessed one building literally falling to the ground. It was one of the scariest things, maybe even the scariest thing I had ever seen in my life.

I am now in my house, I am so scared that the Nazis were going to break into all of the houses and kill all of the Jews, even though they were only sent to destroy all of the buildings and shops owned by Jews, I know that because I was walking by the Gustapo one day when I heard one of the Nazi leaders, maybe it was Hitler, speaking to Goebbels and telling him to make a speech that would turn all of the Germans against the Jews because they apparently “lost” WWI for Germany, which I and everyone else knows had nothing to do with us, the outcome would have been the same.

The Nazis had destroyed about 50+ buildings and shops by the time the night was over, it was the biggest destruction I had seen in a long time. I was so surprised that Hitler (who was a soldier during the time of the war, but could not fight due to an inability in his leg to fight) ended up controlling all of Germany and even all of the Nazi political party (which was a total disorganized and in destructive part of the other political parties before Hitler had come along and took over the whole political party), which was the reason he was so popular and got to the minds of all of Germany (well, Goebbels was the one who did all of the big speeches for him).A building that was being attacked during the night of Kristallnacht

Life or Death

I am just a normal Jew,living in simple little Germany.Then this, this little person(Adolf Hitler) just comes into our lives and tries to ruin it by trying to execute all of us Jews so that he could have all the power that he could possibly hold,he blames all of us Jews for the loss of WWI,which couldn't have possibly been our fault because there was the rest of Germany that could have outnumbered the rest of Italy(or whoever else it was who was in it).I had found an idea to try to stop this Hitler fool from trying to exterminate all of us,my idea is to go and stop them(the Nazis)from doing whatever it is she wanted to do.

One day I was walking by the Gustapo,trying to take a peek of what the Nazis were going to do to get rid of us,I overheard Hitler talking to his wingman in crime Goebbels about having him make a speech to all of Germany to boycott the Jewish businesses and then to do something that would change my life forever,they were going to go around in the middle of the night and destroy all of the shops and synagogues(churches).I listened untill Hitler said the date that they were going to do this,November 9,1938...I had to prepare all of my neighbors that were willing to assist me in trying to stop this.

So on November 9,1938,my group of followers and I went out on a roof with a bunch of bricks and stones and slingshots and waited for the Nazis,when they came,we instantly knew what we were going to do,go for the Nazis in the back and try to take them out one by one.We started to attack the Nazis,they were very suprised when they saw bricks and stones falling from roofs,so they pulled out their guns and held them safely,trying to be as aware to their surroundings as possible as they could.Some of the Nazis started to forget about the stores and started to approach us and climb onto the rooftops,but the others started to destroy the shops and businesses,they had been have as done as they needed to to get their job done for Hitler.

I just started to run away and try to get back to my house so that I could gather some weapons,because the Nazis already were being very causcious about us being there,now they were very active in their awareness.When I got my gun from my house I went back and tried to take some shortcuts to get back in time.By the time I had got there my companion's(allies/partners)were spread out all over the grounds of the rooftops,dead...I was so scared that they were aware of my being,they just were thinking what could one Jew do to all of our Nazis and German followers.

I was on the roof,I had a few soldiers in my sights,so I figured that I would die anyways,so why not do it bringing some of those damn Nazis down with me.I took the first shot,it was so exhilirating(exciting)that I just kept doing it,after a few minutes,all there was was red...,red,red and red.I had done it,but also,what I saw was all of the buildings and shops of my fellow Jews destroyed,demolished even,my idea of a simple effort to take out and stop a few Nazis turned out to be a bloodthirsty death and shop riot.I was the only one that had survived this event out of the other helpers that I had had with me.I was later going to spread the word and try to get more Jews to try to stop the Nazis.On a further note,the Nazis ransacked 1000+ shops,synagogues and businesses.

This is the Gestapo,this is where all of the war actions and all actions against Germany are handled,it was created by Adolf Hitler to take control of all warfare-related responsibilities

The End of Samuel

  I am a little nobody, or at least to all of the Germans who are against us Jews, but I am not. I am like everyone else, just born from a different kind of family. We Jews are just like all of the Germans and the Polish and  even the Spanish, we fight in wars, we help out in the government, we live our everyday lives the same way, wake up, eat breakfast, take a shower, go to work, etc. My life is just as good as anybody else’s, except that now we are hunted and attacked by the Nazi soldiers and even our own neighbors. I am one of the people who was attacked(well, my business was)and ransacked, it tore my spirit into many pieces and shattered my dreams of ever reopening my store again because I was afraid that the Nazis would come back again and ruin it, so I didn’t want to get my hopes up high and then have them be shattered again and again.

           

            So now I am sitting down in my house, trying to think of a way to try to get my life back to the way it was before the Nazis have taken it over and ruined it for me and my other fellow Jews. ”I have an idea!” I don’t know if it will work, but if it doesn’t my fate will be the same, die now or die later a crucial death. My idea is to try to slip away, maybe get out of the country and bring as many of my fellow Jews as I can get in a certain amount of time and try to go to a ship dock and maybe catch a ride somewhere far away where Hitler can never find us.

            Never mind that idea, I’m no hero, I am just a little shopkeeper that can have no difference in anything that Hitler can do, what can I, one  little Jew to try to stop a whole army of German Nazis and Hitler himself. So I am now out of idea, I can just sit here and wait for the Nazis to come and take me away, I will not fight back because there is no use, they will just shoot me several times and leave my dead body. So this is probably my last journal writing for a long, long time. So I hope someone other than Hitler finds this journal and has to endure what I have had to suffer and maybe feel some sort of sorrow for me in this time of devastation. From me, Samuel, this is the ending…
This above(Top Left)is a diary of a
Jew that was found by all of the other Jews that found his body

Ransack Attack

Kristallnacht was started by the Nazis and all of the others associated with them destroyed thousands of buildings and shops and stores.Hitler was the main leader of the Nazis and of Germany,and was also the man that started Kristallnacht and the Holocaust.Hitler hired Joseph Goebbels,he was made the Minister of Propaganda and second in command,right behind Hitler.There was also many other groups that were involved in the event of Kristallnacht.One of the types of groups that were involved in Kristallnacht were the Jews because they were the  ones that were being treated like this and attacked by the Nazis.Another group that was involved in Kristallnacht was Germany because they were the ones that were being given the speech that tried to turn them against the Jews and were also the ones that helped the Nazis destroy buildings.Another group that was involved in Kristallnacht was the Gustapo,it was a group organization created by Hitler and Goebbels to take responsibility for all war actions.


Kristallnacht was the "Night of Broken Glass,"it was called that because of all of the shop windows that were broken that night.It was also called Pogromnacht(which,translated means night of attacks or series of attacks),Reichskristallnacht(which is night of Reichstag,I think),and also Novemberpogrome(which is the series of attacks in November).Kristallnacht was the starting of all events leading to and in the Holocaust and the Final Solution.It was a speech that was given to Goebbels as a job from Hitler to try to turn all of Germany against the Jews,and later turn into boycotting,and then turned into a night of destruction to all of the buildings and shops that were owned by the Jews.Kristallnacht was also a way to get back at the Jews for when Grynspanz killed Ernst von Rath,who was an important leader in the German and Nazi society.


Kristallnacht is a pretty hard topic to explain where exactly it happened,but ,if I had to say something,I would say that it was spread out all through Germany,I would say that because that is where the speech was given to all of the people by Goebbels.It was spread out into all of Nazi Germany,It probably happened in places like Poland,and maybe even France.Kristallnact must have happened in the middle parts of cities and towns,which is where all of the stores and businesses are located.Another place where Kristallnacht had happened was in Vienna,which was one of the main places,it was one of the many places where many synagogues and churches were being ransacked,burned and destroyed.


Kristallnacht occurred/happened on November ninth and tenth,1938,it had happened before and led to the Holocaust and the Final Solution.Kristallnacht also happened right after the killing of Ernst von Rath,and because of Hitler gaining power of Germany and all of the Nazi political party.He was the most powerful person in all of Germany.But Kristallnacht had also happened after WWI and before WWII.


Kristallnacht was started because of some very unusual reason,that reason being that the Jews were being boycotted by all of Germany,it mainly happened because of the killing of Ernst von Rath,and because of Goebbels coming up with the speech that turned all of Germany against the Jews.


                                                                  

 Joeseph Goebbels(On the right)was the reason that the Holocaust and Kristallnacht was started(other than the fact that Hitler was the reason he was was part of the Nazi party),but he still did all of the speeches to Germany