Kristallnacht is the climax of events in which the Nazi's solidified their anti-semantic racial policy into the minds of the German people. Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, was one of the most horrific single nights of German persecution towards the Jewish people of Germany. In a matter of hours the Jewish population of Germany was robbed of their synagogues, businesses and property. In the eyes of the Adolph Hitler, The Nazi Party and the people of Germany, the Jewish race must cease to exist. Most of the German people at this time knew the fate of the Jews was annihilation. What series of events led to Kristallnacht and how complicit were the German people? Why didn’t anyone act out against the unjust behavior of the Nazi Party? The German people were filled with the fear for their lives and the fear that their government would stop at nothing to achieve a master Aryan race they aspired to achieve leaving Germany free of the perceived Jewish stranglehold.
From the beginning of Adolph Hitler’s political career, as the leader of the German Worker’s Party in 1921 (Nazi Party), he showed strong anti-Semitism towards people of the Jewish Faith. The Jews according to Hitler and his Party were seen to be at the root of all evil and were the direct cause of Germany’s loss of the first world war[1]. Hitler’s twenty-five-point Party program dominantly contained “attacks on the Jews and the call for their exclusion from membership in and influence on German society and institutions” [2]. The Nazi party was also seen as “obsessively anti-Semitic and apocalyptic in its rhetoric about its enemies”[3]. Even with these racial and unjust remarks towards the Jews, Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, was elected Führer of Germany in March of 1933 by the German people. With the Nazi’s rise to power they could enforce Hitlers program of Jewish annihilation regardless of whether the people of Germany disapproved or not. [4]. Surprisingly the majority of...