La, Nuit de Cristal, (German for Kristallnacht) is a sign from the night of November 9 to 10, 1938, when there was a wave of violence against Jews in Germany and Austria. This taphoric term, referring to the countless glass breakages from the breaker windows, does not accurately reflect the degree of violence and destruction, or the number of perp perp s murders.
This explosion of violence took the assassination of a secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynzpan, a young Polish Jew of German origin, as the main event. Orchestrated by Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, the instructions given to the various party organs are clear: loot, set fire to, disrupt Jewish institutions and goods deprived from the community, by making believe a movement of the population.
The pogrom of the Nuit de Cristal aims to push the German Jews to flee en masse. The goal is achieved. The number of candidates: migration is illegal, but as a result of the outrage that it provokes in the world, refugees remain closed.
This absence of sanctions: the opposition to Nazi Germany leaves all fields free; Hitler to make the Reich free of Jews.
The texts presented on this site are taken from the exhibition catalog: La, Nuit de Cristal, published in November 2008 by the
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |