Kristallnacht Research Paper

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The Kristallnacht was a very important and memorable event in history. Many people remember it differently, while some barely remember it at all. One individual, Kurt Messerschmidt, very vividly remembers one specific event that took place on that night. He was biking to school one day, as he and his friend Rudy Zonnefelt always did, when they came across a tiny cigar stop. Inside of the cigar stop was a very little old man, two Nazis and many people gathered around them. Forty to fifty people to be exact. Kurt and Rudy stopped biking to see what all the commotion was about. It turned out that the two Nazis were forcing the frail old man to kneel down and pick up the glass shards one by one, even when he didn’t break the window! They were