New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison

Book Overview

On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi leadership unleashed an unprecedented orchestrated wave of violence against Jews in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland, supposedly in response to the assassination of a Nazi diplomat by a young Polish Jew, but in reality to force the remaining Jews out of the country. During the pogrom, Stormtroopers, Hitler Youth, and ordinary Germans murdered more than a hundred Jews (many more committed suicide) and ransacked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557538700
• ISBN13: 9781557538703
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"