In remembrance of November 9-10, 1938! Never forget that humans can at times be terrible monsters!
When in a highly civilized country, which has been famous for its poets, thinkers, musicians and inventors/scientists, such atrocities against humanity can be perpetrated!
When grave evil is not confronted and opposed in time! It is everyone's responsibility not to remain silent, ignorant, or passive when one learns of or witnesses such evil!
I was born only 16 years in Western Germany after World War II ended. A lot of the enablers or perpetrators were still alive and among us as family members, neighbors, politicians, judges, police officers etc..
My father (born 1933) told me the story that during Kristallnacht, the local fire department, against all German traditions and virtues, was not to respond to certain emergency calls! Perfidy perfectly defined!
All my life, I wanted to find out more about the people Hitler and the Nazis tried so hard to exterminate. I discovered that Jewish history is absolutely fascinating. There are good reasons why I try to cover e.g. fascinating Israel here in my blog. In high school, one of my best friends was a Jew, but the family was not orthodox, but modern and they were not hiding their religious beliefs.
Kristallnacht is a terrible German euphemism to name this event!
Before the Kristallnacht, there were e.g. the ominous and infamous Nazi book burnings in 1933. It was none other than the famous Heinrich Heine (1797-1856, born into a Jewish family) who prophetically said "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings"!
What came after the Kristallnacht? The Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question)!
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