Also known as the Crystal Night or the Night of Broken Glass.
Started 7 November 1938.
Polish Jew Hershel Grynszpan shot a German at the embassy in France in retaliation to how his parents had been treated. He died 9 November.
Germans wanted revenge, so put it on the Jews, by treating them very violently on 9 to 10 November.
The Jews were fined 1 billion marks and banned from jobs and schools.
Goebbel ordered that if Germans decided to take revenge on the Jews, the government should do nothing to prevent it-some took it as a direct order to attack them.
Himmler ordered to have put as many Jews as possible in prison.
Gangs smashed Jewish property and attacked the Jews.
Some Germans were horrified, but other watched with pleasure.
814 shops, 171 homes, 191 synagogues were destroyed.
100 Jews were killed.
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Nuremberg Laws - Jews
Passed 15 September 1935.
Jews lost citizenship-only German blood could be German citizens, so lost the right to vote, hold government office or have German passports.
They had to trevel in different parts of buses and trains.
The coloured patch was required to set them apart.
They couldn't marry Germans.
In March 1928 they had to register all belongings, so they were easily confiscated.
July 1938, they needed identity cards. Doctors, dentists and Lawyers were forbidden to work for Germans.
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Other Minorities
Gypsies- in 1935, no gypsy/german marriage was allowed.
Homosexuals were sent to camps.
Disabled babies were killed.
Disabled people and alcoholics were sterilised. From 1934 to 1945, 700 000 were sterilised.
By 1945, 6000 disabled children were killed by injection or starvation.
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