Tyler Embry's Kristallnacht Timeline

Timeline created by tylerembry in History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
08/01/1938	Threats against Jew housing are made	German authorities announce that residence permits for foreigners were being cancelled and would have to be renewed.
10/28/1938	Jews are ordered out of Germany	About 17,000 Polish Jews are ordered out of Germany
11/07/1938	Ernst vom Rath shot in Paris	Herschel Grynszpan shoots Ernst vom Rath at the French German embassy in retalliation for the mistreatment of his Jewish family during the expulsion.
11/09/1938	Joseph Goebbels calls for radical action	Vom Rath dies of his wounds and Joseph Goebbels calls for drastic action against the Jews in retaliation.
11/09/1938	Hitler's Commerative Dinner is interupted.	Hitler is interupted while commemorating the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. He leaves without making an address. Joseph Goebbels states that the Nazi party itself should take no action, but civilian riots shouldn't be stopped.
11/09/1938	Riots	Riots begin just hours after news of vom Rath's death reaches the public. They carry on for two days.
11/10/1938	Reinhard Heydrich sends telegram regarding riots.	Officers are instructed not to stop rioters from destroying Jewish property.
11/11/1938	Jewish Community in fined	Because the Nazis blamed the Jews for all the destruction incurred during the riots, they fined the Jews 1 billion marks. Jews were also forced into several humiliating acts, such as scrubbiing the sidewalks while other non-Jew citizens, some formerly neighbors, watched.
11/11/1938	Goebbels calls violence to a halt
11/14/1938	Reflective video	Survivors Remember Kristallnacht