UCSB Hist 133Dlecture outline

UCSB Hist 133D
The Holocaust in German History

Prof. Marcuse
Oct. 16, 2001

Lecture 7: A Case Study: Kristallnacht

Video clip: "Kristallnacht: The Journey from 1938 to 1988," (PBS 1988), 15 mins.

Annexation of Austria, March 1938—very popular among Austrians
Munich conference, 28 Sept. 1938; main synagogue already torn down in June 1938!
Herschel Grynszpan, retrace route through Paris on Nov. 7
vom Rath dies late afternoon; news reaches Munich at 7pm on 9 Nov. (anniversary!)
Heydrich’s telex, Bielefeld footage, Dresden vs. Leipzig SA (in CIVILIAN clothes)
Numbers, where they come from, what they mean:
- 191 or 276 or 1100+ or 1600+ (257 in NRW) synagogues destroyed
- 200+ killed, not 91 (or 36)

Friedlander in Reader: p. 288 (18 of reader), left column, middle (source of the day)
- intentionalism vs. functionalism
- compare preceding page, same spot (p. 284 / 16)
Kristallnacht--slides

1933-38 Jews in Germany
1933-38 Jewish emigration w/i Europe (166,000 total)
1933-38 Jewish emigration world (282,000 total)
28 Oct. 1938 expulsion to Poland (70,000 Jews with Polish passports living in Germany)
9/10 Nov. sites of looting: three waves until 12 Nov. (not one night)
10 Nov. deportation routes (ca. 25,000 arrested in first few days)