November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi
Germany's assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their
lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were
imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutally
mistreated. Thousands more fled their homelands in Germany and
Austria, shocked by what they had seen, heard and experienced. What
they took with them was not only the pain of saying farewell but
also the memory of terrible scenes: attacks by mobs of drunken
Nazis, public humiliations, burning synagogues, inhuman conditions
in overcrowded prison cells and concentration camp barracks. The
reactions of neighbours and passersby to these barbarities ranged
from sympathy and aid to scorn, mockery, and abuse.
In 1939 the Harvard sociologist Edward Hartshorne gathered
eyewitness accounts of the Kristallnacht from hundreds of Jews who
had fled, but Hartshorne joined the Secret Service shortly
afterwards and the accounts he gathered were forgotten - until now.
These eyewitness testimonies - published here for the first time,
with a foreword by Saul Friedlander, the Pulitzer Prize historian
and Holocaust survivor - paint a harrowing picture of everyday
violence in one of Europe's darkest moments.
This unique and disturbing document will be of great interest to
anyone interested in modern history, Nazi Germany and the
historical experience of the Jews.
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