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The propaganda value Hitler saw was for two different reasons. One is the Aryan racial superiority myth. According to the Nazi regime, an Aryan would have blue eyes and blond hair, in addition to being muscular and hero-like. If Hitler’s athletes, composed of Aryans, won at the Olympics, his idea of Aryan dominance would be proved true.
The second propaganda value Hitler saw was to boost his countries' image. Hitler wanted the world to see that Germany was now a peaceful, accepting country that held wealth, knowledge, and athleticism. In order for this to work, though, Hitler felt the need to clean up Germany. He had the anti-Jewish signs removed and replaced them with Swastikas and Olympic flags. Hitler and the Nazi’s also decided to clean up by taking 800 Gypsies, arresting them, and putting them in a camp under guard, away from the Games.
Many countries were debating whether or not to participate in the Olympic Games. Most felt that they would be encouraging the anti-Semitism going on in Germany by attending. The greatest place of debate over going was in the U.S., where sides were clearly drawn. Some said that politics should have no place in the Olympics, while others felt that by going they would be endorsing Hitler’s views on race and religion. A “People’s Olympiad” was planned by some to be a counter-olympics. It was to be held in Barcelona, Spain, but the plain was quickly dropped as the Spanish Civil War started. Rallies were held, boycotts were formed, but in the end the U.S. decided to go to the Olympics after a close vote, and most of the other countries followed suit, except for the Soviet Union, who decided not to go. Even though most countries went to the Olympics in Berlin, many individual Jewish athletes opted out of competing.
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Forty-nine countries went to the Berlin Games, the highest amount of any Olympic Games from that point. Germany had the most athletes competing, at 348. The U.S. had the second highest amount of athletes competing at 312.
“a disgrace”.
Jesse Owens was a member of the U.S. track team. He won four gold medals in different events of track and field, and with the medals he also set a couple world records. Jesse Owens was a very important athlete for the Olympics because of his race. As he was an African American, he disproved the Nazi’s idea of a superior Aryan race. The Nazi’s would not take this, though, and Hitler refused to shake Owen’s hand after his wins, which is a common protocol for the Olympics.
The Nazi games had to impress its visitors, to show that Germany was once again part of the world. So, to start the XIth Olympiad, Hitler was welcomed into the main stadium by the famous composer of the time, Richard Strauss, who was conducting musical fanfares. This was also the first year for a single runner to bring in a torch by relays from the place of the Ancient Olympics at Olympia, Greece.

TOPIC: 1936 Olympics
NAME: Peter P.P.
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-In this section you shouldThe Nazi Olympics were hosted in Berlin in 1936. They were a way for Hitler and his Nazi party to show the world that Germany was a peaceful, kind country; ready to be describingforgiven. Also, it was a chance to prove the background, early portion, startmyth of your event/person's life/topic.Aryan superiority that Hitler and his follower’s believed, because if their athletes did well it would prove his point.
The 1936 Summer Olympics were granted to Germany because the International Olympic Committee (IOC), representing the Western half of the World, wanted to forgive Germany for World War I. This action would show that the world was ready to move on and forget World War I and Germany’s involvement. It would also give Germany a second chance to get back in the modern world.
At first, Hitler did not care that the Olympics were being hosted in his country. Only until his Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, alerted him to the fact that the Olympics would have a strong propaganda value, Hitler finally saw the importance of the Olympics. He decided to pay entirely for the finances of the Olympics, which came out to be 20,000,000 Reichsmarks ($8,000,000).
The propaganda value Hitler saw was for two different reasons. One is the Aryan racial superiority myth. According to the Nazi regime, an Aryan would have blue eyes and blond hair, in addition to being muscular and hero-like. If Hitler’s athletes, composed of Aryans, won at the Olympics, his idea of Aryan dominance would be proved true.
The second propaganda value Hitler saw was to boost his countries' image. Hitler wanted the world to see that Germany was now a peaceful, accepting country that held wealth, knowledge, and athleticism. In order for this to work, though, Hitler felt the need to clean up Germany. He had the anti-Jewish signs removed and replaced them with Swastikas and Olympic flags. Hitler and the Nazi’s also decided to clean up by taking 800 Gypsies, arresting them, and putting them in a camp under guard, away from the Games.
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-InForty-nine countries went to the Berlin Games, the highest amount of any Olympic Games from that point. Germany had the most athletes competing, at 348. The U.S. had the second highest amount of athletes competing at 312.
For the two weeks where athletes and visitors(especially journalists) were present, Germany made sure to hide its racist dictatorship where Jews, Gypsies, political enemies and others were persecuted. Germany had to make sure that it was presented to its visitors as a grand country. During the Olympics, amazing public events and rallies impressed the athletes and journalists. The Germans also made sure to have everything go according to plan, including nice treatment of the guests so that a lasting impression was made. One step Germany did to make this section you should be explaining what your event actually was, what your person actually DID duringhappen is that they passed laws and rules to treat blacks from other countries, especially America, with kindness and respect. Also, they shouldn’t openly question someone’s homosexuality. These rules, however, did not seem to apply to everyone. A big Nazi newspaper referred to the blacks in some issues as “auxiliaries” after some blacks won a couple of events, showing that the Aryans aren’t superior after all. Also, Hitler refused to shake any of the winning black athletes hands after some events, especially Jesse Owens. Germany's Minister of Propaganda privately called the wins by blacks “a disgrace”.
Jesse Owens was a member of the U.S. track team. He won four gold medals in different events of track and field, and with the medals he also set a couple world records. Jesse Owens was a very important athlete for the Olympics because of his race. As he was an African American, he disproved the Nazi’s idea of a superior Aryan race. The Nazi’s would not take this, though, and Hitler refused to shake Owen’s hand after his wins, which is a common protocol for the Olympics.
The Nazi games had to impress its visitors, to show that Germany was once again part of the world. So, to start the XIth Olympiad, Hitler was welcomed into the main stadium by the famous composer of the time, Richard Strauss, who was conducting musical fanfares. This was also the first year for a single runner to bring in a torch by relays from the place of the Ancient Olympics at Olympia, Greece.
Anti-Semitism wasn’t just done by the Germans, though. The Americans did an extremely controversial move by deciding to not have two Jewish relay runners compete, the day before the event. Many reasons were given for this action, one being that the coaches wanted the fastest men on the team, so they replaced the two Jewish athletes with Owens and Metcalfe, who were the team’s two fastest sprinters. One of the two Jewish athletes was convinced that the coaches were riled up by all of the anti-Semitism going on, and that they did not want to humiliate Hitler when two American Jews were on the winning podium. The other Jewish athlete who was replaced did not know why he was replaced, but was extremely embarrassed and upset by the Holocaust, etc.whole ordeal.
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-InAfter all the events were done, Hitler and the Germans came out victorious with the most medals earned by their athletes. However, the Aryan race myth did not come out victorious, as thirteen Jewish athletes won medals, as did fourteen African Americans. However, most of this section youwas forgotten, and what was remembered by most was that Germany was now a peaceful, tolerant, and kind country, and the rest of the world was finally able to forgive Germany. Most newspapers wrote something similar to another, one paper saying that Germany was “back in the fold of nations”, and “more human again”, and other papers thought that this peaceful time would last forever. Only a couple reporters were able to see through the grandeur Germany created, and see its true core of a racist, militaristic regime.
Hitler, always thinking on the grand scale for his country, thought that after the 1940 Olympic Games took place in Tokyo, they should always be explaining what happenedhosted in Germany, for the rest of time. This was said in a conversation between Hitler and Albert Speer, the general architectural inspector for the Reich, so it can be assumed that Hitler was in fact serious about the Olympics always being hosted in Germany.
There was so much propaganda in the actual Olympics itself that the Nazis could not stop there. Shortly after the Olympics, the great film maker Leni Riefenstahl was ordered by Hitler to your person, how your eventmake a movie about the Olympics. In 1938, the movie Olympia came out internationally. It was a very controversial documentary about the Olympic Games.
Some noted that the end of the Olympics was the end of the brief hiatus of hatred and anti-Semitism between the Nazis and the Jews. The German’s anti-Jewish campaign picked up right were it started after the Olympics ended, whatwith persecution becoming even worse. The U.S. ambassador to Germany of the long-lasting impacttime sent back the information that the Jews awaited “with fear and trembling” the end of your topic was.the Olympic truce. In fact, Captain Wolfgang Furstner, who was in charge of the Olympic village, committed suicide after he was told that he had been dismissed from active military service, because of his Jewish background. Another case of this was the German-Jew Gretel Bergmann, who was a big track star who fled to the U.S. to get away from persecution.

In 1919 the German Workers’ Party, Nazi Party, or Third Reich was formed by Anton Drexter and Karl Harrer. This group supported German pride and anti- Semitism. Adolf Hitler joined this party the same year that it was founded. Hitler became the groups leader in 1921. He earned this position by giving public speeches on how the Jews and Marxists were at fault for all of Germany’s problems. These speeches also attracted new members to the group. This group promised that problems such as unemployment, inflation, and hunger will be resolved. They earned initial support because people wanted to fix the economic depression, unemployment, and Nazi Partywas appealing to nationalist. On January 30,1933 Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President Paul Vin Hindenburg.
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During Hitler’s cammand,command, he came Anyone who didntdidn't fit the
The way Hitler “formed” Germany was by taking these main procedures. First he controlled who married who, second he controlled who would have kids and who wouldn’t, and thirdly he had research done on tobacco, alcohol, and syphilis. He had research done on these three things because he predicted that they were “genetic poisons”. He later outlawed tobacco and alcohol.
In 1933 the Nazi’s open their first concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. People that were artist, intellectuals, Jew, Gypsies, the physically and mentally handicap,and homosexuals were sent here. Thousand were killed at this camp from malnutrition, disease, overwork, and execution.
On September 1, 1939 the Nazis invaded Poland. When they invaded Poland this initially started World War II because then France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. The Nazi’s plan was to take over all of Europe. But this plan started to fade away when the United States entered the war. When the Nazis realized this they came up with the “Final Solution”. The Final Solution was that they were going to kill every one in all of the concentration camps. At the end of the Final Solution about six million Jews alone died. This number does not include the other groups that were brought to the camps.
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The group ws destoyedwas destroyed when Germany

TOPIC: Nazi Rise to Power
NAME: Peter F.
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-InIn 1919 the German Workers’ Party, Nazi Party, or Third Reich was formed by Anton Drexter and Karl Harrer. This group supported German pride and anti- Semitism. Adolf Hitler joined this section you should be describingparty the background, early portion, startsame year that it was founded. Hitler became the groups leader in 1921. He earned this position by giving public speeches on how the Jews and Marxists were at fault for all of your event/person's life/topic.Germany’s problems. These speeches also attracted new members to the group. This group promised that problems such as unemployment, inflation, and hunger will be resolved. They earned initial support because people wanted to fix the economic depression, unemployment, and Nazi Partywas appealing to nationalist. On January 30,1933 Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President Paul Vin Hindenburg.
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-InDuring Hitler’s cammand, he came up with up with this section you shouldconcept of United Germany. This concept was that everyone would have a set destiny and purpose. The people of Germany would also be explaining what your event actually was, what your person actually DID duringbiologically the Holocaust, etc.same. Hitler wanted them to be “ racial pure” so every one would look the same and be built strong. This “race” was called the Aryan Master Race. Anyone who didnt fit the description was sent to a concentration camp. Some examples were the Jews, Gypsics, other races and religious groups, and even Germans with hereditary disease.
The way Hitler “formed” Germany was by taking these main procedures. First he controlled who married who, second he controlled who would have kids and who wouldn’t, and thirdly he had research done on tobacco, alcohol, and syphilis. He had research done on these three things because he predicted that they were “genetic poisons”. He later outlawed tobacco and alcohol.
In 1933 the Nazi’s open their first concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. People that were artist, intellectuals, Jew, Gypsies, the physically and mentally handicap,and homosexuals were sent here. Thousand were killed at this camp from malnutrition, disease, overwork, and execution.
On September 1, 1939 the Nazis invaded Poland. When they invaded Poland this initially started World War II because then France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. The Nazi’s plan was to take over all of Europe. But this plan started to fade away when the United States entered the war. When the Nazis realized this they came up with the “Final Solution”. The Final Solution was that they were going to kill every one in all of the concentration camps. At the end of the Final Solution about six million Jews alone died. This number does not include the other groups that were brought to the camps.
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-In this section you should be explaining what happened to your person, how your event ended, whatIn the long-lasting impactend the Nazi Party lasted twelve years. (1933-1945) The group ws destoyed when Germany git defeated in WWII. The Nazi Party was outlawed and its symbol ( the swastika) became the symbol of your topic was.evil. Also a number of Nazi officials were convicted of war crimes. They were sent to the Nuremberg Trials in Nuremberg, Germany. The trials lasted from 1945-1949.

NAME: Bobby P.
Early life of Oskar Schindler:
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In 1935 German intelligence officers struck a deal with Schindler. Schindler was to supply the Germans with a constant stream of information on the Polish military's movements in exchange for not having to serve in the German military. German invaded Poland in October 1939. Schindler made friends with powerful SS officials through bribes and black-market swindles. These connections provided him with an enamelware factory in Krakow. He hired Jews because they were the cheapest labor around. One of every three workers in Schindler's factory were from the Krakow ghetto.
The story of Schindler's list:

The Nazis started growing suspicious of Schindler's motives. They arrested him several but were never able to charge him with anything. In 1942 the Jews in the Krakow ghetto were moved to to labor camps. They took some of Schindler's workers. Upon hearing about this Schindler rushed to the train station and freed them. The next month, an SS commander, Amon Goeth, took control of the nearby Plaszow labor camp. Goeth was ruthless and would not stop until every one of Schindler's Jews were either dead or in a labor camp. Through many bribes, Schindler was able to convince Goeth to let his factory become a sub-camp of Plaszow. Schindler took good care of his workers, feeding them well. In 1943 Plaszow was deemed a concentration camp. The SS took Schindler's Jews to the camp. The Russian front was closing in so all the Jews at Plazsow were evacuated to extermination camps. Schindler was enraged. He bribed Amon Goeth out of his own money to let him move his camp to Brnenec, Moravia. Schindler and his Jewish accountant, Idek, made a list of over 1,100 Jews that would come to the camp. This list became known as the famous Schindler's list.
In 1944 Nazi power began to diminish. In 1945 the war was over. The Schindlers left the factory a few days before the Russians liberated the camp.
Awards and resultsResults of Oskar Schindler's life:actions:
Schindler's actions in 1957. They were not divorced, only seperated. In 1961 the medal foron behalf of her late husband, Oskar Schindler.
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In 1993 Steven directed a film,film Schindler's List,

In 1934, the holocaust had officially begun, and the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people was in full swing. The Jews were had been stripped of food, weapons, and proper shelter. This persecution was fueling resistance attempts from the Jews, whether they be in concentration camps, ghettos, or in the middle of a forest. Jews were fighting back individually and collectively. Groups were formed, such as the FPO (Lithuania) and the Jewish Army (France). People like Rozka Korczak, Vitka Kempner, Abba Kovner, and Kalman Teigman were all important individuals who help Jews during the holocaust. The most effective resistance was the armed resistance. It was the only kind able to actually kill German soldiers. If they didn't have weapons, the resistance usually failed.
The Jewish people were angry and distraught all over Europe. Resistances were being planned in and out of the concentration camps. Jews outside of the camps did whatever they could do stop the Nazis. In the ghettos, people were willing to do the impossible. Weapons from anywhere they could be found were smuggled in, and substitutes for weapons were being made. The Nazis never saw resistance like this coming. Any resistance was expected to be weak and short live but the Jewish people had different say in the matter. They avoided hopelessness and despair in any way possible. Then again, people were committing suicide as a way to resist the Nazi power.
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When the being implemented, groupsthe Jewish people were doing whatever they could to resist their Nazi enemies. Things were being done that today wouldn't be considered resistance. It could be argued suicide was a form of resistance to some Jews. But there were "better" forms of resistance being performed as well. Groups such as and small arms.arms as weapons to harm or kill German soldiers.Also, Jews were hiding there.
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Camps were set up all over forests in Europe. They were a safe haven for fleeing Jewish prisoners. There were leaders of these camps and they were constantly putting together small units to sabotage German military movements. In the ghettos, Jews hid in the shadows waiting for the perfect time to strike. When a German military unit came by, the Jews unleashed all they had on them. Now, usually the Jews really weren't much for the Germans to handle, but in ghettos such as Warsaw, it was a different story. Enough Jews gathered together to make a huge resistance.
Resistances like the one in Warsaw lasted longer than the Germans expected. German general Heinrich Himmler promised Hitler that the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto would be explainingquelled in three days. It took four weeks. The entire city had been completely destroyed. That's what happenedit took for a large Jewish resistance in a ghetto to be stopped.
Now, an uprising in a concentration camp was a totally different story. The prisoners had basically no connection to your person, how your event ended, what the long-lasting impactoutside world. They had no weapons that could be smuggled in, so they had to steal them from the Germans. Children that polished the German's shoes had to steal weapons from the armory day by day so the guards wouldn't notice. Then, once the Jewish men had the guns, SS soldiers were led to the barracks and killed on the spot. That was when the fight started. Every man was for himself. The Germans were outnumbered, but they had the military marksmanship. So, it didn't take long for the resistance to end. Some Jews did get get away, but they were usually caught again.
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Most of your topic was.the Jewish resistance ended once the war was over and all the concentration camps were liberated, but not all of the Jews just went home and didn't care. A lot of Jewish people stayed in groups and began to help others recover. Some went to Jerusalem, others stayed in Europe. But, they did whatever they could to help. They gave them shelter, helped orphans, fed them, bathed them, and clothed them. The Soviet Union, who helped the Jews during the war, actually wanted Jewish resistance groups disbanded, but the Jews didn't give up on helping others.
People who were leaders of the resistance during the war never stopped helping. People like Rozka Korczak went to Jerusalem and made Jewish religious leaders aware of the holocaust. Others went looking for family. But, because of the Jewish resistance, the holocaust will never be fogotten among the Jews or anyone in the world.

With all the hardships the residents endured, one would thing that there would have been many revolts to overthrow the Nazi oppressers. In fact, there were many uprisings and revolts. The most famous and most succesful was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the spring of 1943. Heinrich Himmler claimed in January 1943 that as a birthday present for Hitler, he would dispose of all Jews in the Warsaw ghetto by April of that same year. The revolt started in late March, 1943, when 1,500 Jews overrran the Nazis and forced them to retreat. This would be the only victory for the Jews during the revolt. Nearly a month of fighting continued until the ghetto was bombarded into submission. When all the smoke had cleared, only about 100 of the original 330,000 residents were still there. By the end of the conflict, the ghetto had been completely destroyed.
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-In this section you should be explaining what happenedThe legacy of the ghettos of World War II is unforgettable. From the origins dating back hundreds of years all the way to your person, how your event ended, what the long-lasting impactinfamous ghettos created by the Nazis, the thought of such hatred towards one race is unbelieveable. Incredible stories of heroism, pain, courage, and death are only known by the survivors of your topic was.these terrible ghettos.

The ghettos were very orderly, highly protected, and highly policed places. Upon the creation of a ghetto, the Nazis would create a council of Jews known as the Judernate, to oversee day to day activities. A Jewish police force was also put in place in the ghettos. They were meant to enforce rules and act as though a normal police force would. Often, the nazis believed that the police force was not doing satisfactory work and would often execute members of the Jewish Police.
With such great restrictions put upon the Jews in the ghettos, many ghettos formed underground resistance groups. These groups would often smuggle weapons, food, and medical supplies into the ghettos. They would also gather intelligence and sometimes sabotage the Nazi war machine. Allthough, the more the resisitance pushed the Nazis, the more the Nazis pushed back.
same year. The revolt started in late March, 1943, when 1,500 Jews overrran the Nazis and forced them to retreat. This would be the only victory for the Jews during the revolt. Nearly a month of fighting continued until the ghetto was bombarded into submission. When all the smoke had cleared, only about 100 of the original 330,000 residents were still there. By the end of the conflict, the ghetto had been completely destroyed.
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TOPIC: Hitler YouthKristallnacht
NAME: Calvin PNatalie W.
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In 1926,Kristallnacht means Night of Crystal or Night of Broken Glass. It was the Hitler Youthfirst public attack on the Jewish people of Germany. It was created. In German, the Hitler Youth were calledturning point of the "Hitler Jugend." The Reich Youth Leaderviolence against the Jews. Kristallnacht was Baldur von Schirach, asAdolfo Hitler’s way of 1931. The whole ideareleasing his plan of the Hitler Youth“Final Solution”.
It all started with a 17 year old Polish-Jew, Herschel Grynszpan. He was originally from Hannover, Germany until he went to turn the young German boys into young men ready to give up their livesillegally live in Paris with his uncle. His parents stayed in Germany. He later learned that they were deported to a refugee camp on the war for Hitlerborder of Poland and Germany. Through public school,He was very upset that the Nazis did that so he went and bought a lot of young people in Germany startedrevolver. The next day he went to believe in Nazism,the French embassy office and inwalked into the beginningconference. He missed the German embassador and shot the third secretary, Ernst vom Rath. Kristallnacht is revenge from the murder of 1933,the German government official.
Most German poltitcal officials arranged the violence. They told all the firefighters of the areas to only about half a million Germans were involved incontain the Hitler Youth, but afterfires that year, over two million Germans were involved.threatened Aryan owned homes and businesses. He also advised that police and other officials dress in civilian clothes to make it seem like the common public wanted to harm them.
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On November 9 and 10, 1938 Kristallnacht began. It started at about 1:20 A.M. The German officials and civilians looted, sacked, and destroyed over 500 Jewish homes, synagogues, and store fronts. They left 91 Jews dead and 30,000 Jews in “protective custody” or local prisons. Some Jews went to Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen. Even though it was against the laws the Nazis would rape Jewish women. A German government official described the remains as “Jewish diamonds and crystals”.
After Kristallnacht officials were starting to enforce laws against Jews. Some laws were the Nuremberg laws. They said that Jews could not attend concerts, movies, or any type of German public entertainment. They also got their drivers license taken away. Also, Hermann Goering, a German official, told insurance compaines not to cover the damages from Kristallnacht so the Jews had to pay for the losses and damages. Many vacant lots were left, which were sold to Aryans so that they could have more land.
In the United States, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard about Kristallnacht on November 15, 1938. He told America what had happened and about the violence that took place and asked the German Embassador to come back to the United States for another visit. Even though U.S. knew about the violence in Europe they did not bend the rules for Jewish immagrants because they were scared that a Nazi spy would sneak in the country with them.
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-In this section you should be explaining what happenedThe aftermath of Kristallnacht left thousands of damages houses, buildings, and synagogues. Also, 15,000 Jews fleed the country to your person, how your event ended, whatfind a new home. Kristallnacht was also a huge turning point of the war for Germany. It made their plans for Jews very public and sparked the long-lasting impactattention of your topic was.many other ally nations.