How Did The Persecution Of Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht was a violent pogrom that targeted Jewish people in Nazi Germany, revoking their legal, social and economic rights, and expediting the escalation of Jewish persecution during the Holocaust. Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, was a violent anti-semetic pogrom that occurred on the night of the 9th of November and was carried out into the morning of the 10th. The violent attack on Jewish people was orchestrated by the Nazi Party and carried out by the Nazi Party’s paramilitary forces, including the Sturmführers’ Association (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS) and members of the Hitler Youth. These groups enacted a series of coordinated attacks against Jewish people and Jewish properties throughout Nazi Germany, annexed

This attack resulted in the widespread destruction of Jewish stores, buildings and synagogues and also led to the arrest of thousands of Jewish men. This marked a significant escalation in Nazi policies, from discrimination to active persecution, paving the way for the Holocaust- the systematic genocide whose aim was to eradicate Jewish people and establish an ‘Aryan’ society. This was only accomplished by the introduction of the Nuremberg laws, pervasive anti-Semitic propaganda, enforcing ghettoisation and the Aryanization process, all of these were instrumental in the severe political, social, and economic marginalization of Jewish people. The Holocaust was escalated by the Nazi Party introducing anti-Semitic laws in 1935, which systematically marginalized Jewish people and stripped them of their rights. These laws were The Nuremberg race laws, these were a set of laws that restricted the lives of the Jewish people living in any Nazi-occupied country. These laws aimed to change the everyday lives of the Jewish population or anyone the Nazis deemed to be

The second part of the Nuremberg laws, the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, made it so that it was illegal for a Jew and a ‘citizen of German or kindred blood’ to be married or have sexual relations. Jewish people were also prohibited from employing German women under the age of 45 as domestic workers. These laws were the basis for Kristallnacht, by setting up these dehumanising laws, Jews were no longer publicly accepted, and this resulted in the extreme violence that resulted from Kristallnacht. Nuremberg laws were the groundwork for the systematic persecution of Jewish people that occurred before and during the Second World War. Kristallnacht was not only affected by the Nuremberg laws but by the leaders of the Nazi party who spread propaganda around the country, this led to the mass hatred of Jews and when the order from Reinhard Heydrich, major general of the Schutzstaffel (SS), came out to create the ‘spontaneous’ pogrom. The Nuremberg laws and the wide range of hateful propaganda increased the masses of people that helped to stage the