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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785012803321

Autore

Steinweis Alan E

Titolo

Kristallnacht 1938 [[electronic resource] /] / Alan E. Steinweis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-26753-2

0-674-05465-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Classificazione

NQ 2360

Disciplina

940.53/1842

Soggetti

Kristallnacht, 1938

Jews - Persecutions - Germany - History - 20th century

Antisemitism - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany Ethnic relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Our path is the right one" -- "This bloody Jewish deed" -- "Now the people shall act" -- "The time for revenge has now arrived" -- "Synagogues ignited themselves" -- "A tempest in a teapot" -- "Defendants and witnesses openly hold back with the truth."

Sommario/riassunto

Kristallnacht revealed to the world the intent and extent of Nazi Judeophobia. However, it was seen essentially as the work of the Nazi leadership. Now, Alan Steinweis counters that view in his vision of Kristallnacht as a veritable pogrom - a popular cathartic convulsion of anti-Semitic violence that was manipulated from above but executed from below by large numbers of ordinary Germans rioting in the streets, heckling and taunting Jews, cheering Stormtroopers' hostility, and looting Jewish property on a massive scale.