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Nazi occupation of the Sudetenland
Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland as a result of the Munich Agreement -
Expulsion of Jews From Germany
More than 12,000 Polish-born Jews were expelled from Germany on Hitler's orders. They were ordered to leave their homes and were only allowed one suitcase per person. Their remaining possessions were seized by the Nazi authorities and their neighbors. The deportees were taken to the Polish border, where only 4,000 Jews were accepted and the rest were left to sit there with no money or place to stay. -
Herschel Grynszpan Shoots Ernst vom Rath
After his family was deported, Herschel bought a revolver and shot the German embassy official, Ernst vom Rath. He made no move to escape the police and confessed to the shooting. -
The Night of Broken Glass
Kristallnacht video Goebbels ordered for a riot in which people armed in sledgehammers and axes destroyed Jewish property. They burned Jewish buildings and smashed ones closed to synagogues and non-Jewish places -
Vom Rath Died of his wounds
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Goebbels Called a stop to the Violence
Joseph Goebbels called a stop to the violence against Jews in concentration camps -
Jews were blamed for the damage
Nazis blame Jews for the Damages during Kristallnacht and fine the millions of dollars -
Assessing the Damage
Hermann Göring called a meeting of the top Nazi leadership to assess the damage done during the night and place responsibility for it. The intent of this meeting was to make the Jews responsible for Kristallnacht and to use the events of the preceding days as a rationale for promulgating a series of anti-Semitic laws which would, in effect, remove Jews from the German economy. -
Jewish children expelled from non-jewish schools
Jewish children were no longer allowed to attend non-jewish schoiols -
The Final Solution
Herman Göring decides that the Jewish problem must be fixed. The Jews must be destroyed. Mass killings of about one million Jews occurred before the plans of the Final Solution
