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THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS. Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht
EDITORIAL NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION: ‘THUS ENDED MY LIFE IN GERMANY’1
9 November 1938
Notes
HUGO MOSES Manuscript 39 (159)
New York, October 1939
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SIEGFRIED MERECKI Manuscript 166 (156)
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RUDOLF BING Manuscript 252a (28)
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TONI LESSLER Manuscript 81 (133)
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SOFONI HERZ Manuscript 24 (96)
10 November!!!
The following days of protective custody
We move again!
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‘ARALK’ Manuscript 107 (8)
MARIE KAHLE Manuscript 185 (101)
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KARL E. SCHWABE Manuscript 202 (207)
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GERTRUD WICKERHAUSER LEDERER Manuscript 74a (130)
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KARL ROSENTHAL Manuscript 235 (192)
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GEORG ABRAHAM Manuscript 90 (1)
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HERTHA NATHORFF Manuscript 114 (162)
10 November 1938
11 November 1938
12 November 1938
13 November 1938
14 November 1938
16 November 1938
Monday, 14 November 1938
17 November 1938
20 November 1938
24 November 1938
30 November 1938
2 December 1938
3 December 1938
4 December 1938
5 December 1938
8 December 1938
12 December 1938
15 December 1938
16 December 1938
17 December 1938
20 December 1938
24 December 1938
New Year’s Eve 1938
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CARL HECHT Manuscript 83 (91)
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ERNST BELLAK Manuscript 175 (16)
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MARTIN FREUDENHEIM Manuscript 243 (68)
ALICE BÄRWALD Manuscript 137 (15)
SIEGFRIED WOLFF Manuscript 232 (245)
9 November 1938
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MARGARETE NEFF1 Manuscript 93 (205)
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FRITZ RODECK Manuscript 76a (188)
Vienna, 10 November 1938
Mass arrests
Burning synagogues
Innsbruck, 10 November
… and the Aryans?
‘Atonement measures’
The Jewish situation at the beginning of 1939
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FRITZ GOLDBERG1 Manuscript 245 (89)
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HARRY KAUFMAN Manuscript 105 (108)
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AFTERWORD: NAZI MADNESS
The sociologist Edward Y. Hartshorne and the Harvard Project
The context of the prize competition
‘Nazi Madness’ – The book project
Re-education
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BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDIVIDUAL PUBLICATIONS FROM THE HARVARD COLLECTION BMSGER 91
SECONDARY LITERATURE (INCLUDING TITLES WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE HARVARD COLLECTION)
POLITY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
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Praise for The Night of Broken Glass
‘This riveting book prints a collection of 21 eyewitness accounts by German Jews of the terrible night of 9 November 1938, when, on the orders of Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, bands of stormtroopers all over Germany and Austria burned down more than 1,000 synagogues and smashed up some 7,500 Jewishowned shops. The value of these testimonies lies above all in their detail and immediacy. Mostly they confirm the picture we already have from other sources, though few are as vivid as these.’
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The chief motive of most of the participants was, as the Berlin publicist Wolf Citron put it, ‘to say farewell to Germany by working through and recapitulating what was experienced’. No one did so as radically as Moritz Berger, 21, who gave his account the title ‘Revenge’ and ‘dreamed of being a bomber pilot and reducing his home city to ruins’.38 However, all the accounts agreed that the unrestrained brutality of National Socialism on the night of 9 November 1938 represented the greatest breach of civilization in western history, and that it was, for a German Jew, simply unthinkable ever to live in that country again. ‘Nie mehr zurück in dieses Land’ (‘Never back to that country’), wrote the Berlin doctor Hertha Nathorff one week after the pogrom, ‘once we have left it alive.’ Several authors concluded their memoirs by adopting the prize competition’s title, summarizing the irreversibility of the events in the sentence: ‘So endete mein Leben in Deutschland’ (‘So ended my life in Germany’).
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