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008			130430s2006 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aDS135.G3315 _bG55 2006
082	0	0	_a940.53 GIL
100	1		_aGilbert, Martin, 1936-
245	1	0	_aKristallnacht _b: prelude to destruction _c/ Martin Gilbert
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York _b: HarperCollins _c, c2006.
300			_a314 p. _b: ill., maps _c; 22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-299) and index.
520			_aOn November 7, 1938, a young Jew, enraged by his family's expulsion from Germany, walked into the German embassy in Paris and fired five shots at a junior diplomat. Three days later the diplomat was dead, and Germany was in the grips of skillfully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence. In the early hours of November 10, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed, while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. This was the moment when deliberately inflamed hatreds ignited nationwide destruction. With rare insight and acumen, Martin Gilbert, one of the leading historians of our time, examines Kristallnacht -- the Night of Broken Glass -- and describes how the rest of the world reacted in its wake. His narration of that night and day of terror is chilling, vividly conveying its scale and intensity through more than fifty previously unpublished eyewitness testimonies and graphic newspaper accounts of the events as they unfolded. No other attack on Jews during the course of the Second World War was as widely reported by contemporary observers. Kristallnacht marked the beginning of the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister fore-warning of the Holocaust. By setting the tone for the terrible war to follow, it shaped the second half of the twentieth century and continues to haunt us, almost seventy years later. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, this is an eye-opening study of one ofthe darkest chapters in human history.
650		0	_aKristallnacht _y--1938
650		4	_aJews _x-Persecution _z-Germany
650		0	_aAntisemitism _z--Germany _x--History _y--20th century
651			_aGermany _x-Politics and government _y-1933-1945
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