Kristallnacht Echoes 85 Years Later In Daily Attacks On Jews

Kristallnacht Echoes 85 Years Later In Daily Attacks On Jews

Kristallnacht Echoes 85 Years Later In Daily Attacks On Jews

Today marks the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. On November 9, 1938, Nazi Germany carried out a pogrom in all of its occupied territories, purportedly over the assassination of one German official in Paris by a Jewish teenager.

However, it was also the anniversary of the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch, and the attacks were definitely couched and encouraged by top Nazi officials.

The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilung: commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth.

In its aftermath, German officials announced that Kristallnacht had erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment in response to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath. Vom Rath was a German embassy official stationed in Paris. Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, had shot the diplomat on November 7, 1938. A few days earlier, German authorities had expelled thousands of Jews of Polish citizenship living in Germany from the Reich; Grynszpan had received news that his parents, residents in Germany since 1911, were among them.

Vom Rath died on November 9, 1938, two days after the shooting. The day happened to coincide with the anniversary of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, an important date in the National Socialist calendar. The Nazi Party leadership, assembled in Munich for the commemoration, chose to use the occasion as a pretext to launch a night of antisemitic excesses. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, a chief instigator of the Kristallnacht pogroms, suggested to the convened Nazi ‘Old Guard’ that ‘World Jewry’ had conspired to commit the assassination. He announced that “the Führer has decided that … demonstrations should not be prepared or organized by the Party, but insofar as they erupt spontaneously, they are not to be hampered.”


Eighty-five years later, the Nazi spirit is rearing its ugly head in public once more. Last night, actress Gal Gadot of “Wonder Woman” fame, who is Israeli and served in the IDF, arranged to screen the footage from the October 7th massacre, which has been shown in selected screenings to journalists, who have reported on its content. The event was held at… wait for it… the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, which is a Holocaust education museum. Sounds like the right place to hold the screening, hmmm?

Roughly 200 people, including Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, an official with the Israel Defense Forces, and Hollywood executives, showed up for the screening of “Bearing Witness,” a 43-minute film showing the Hamas atrocities. Some of the footage was actually taken by the Hamas terrorists themselves.

The film reportedly excluded Hamas’ murder of infants and rape of women that has been widely revealed elsewhere, prompting some attendees to react with anger, saying that people should see the full barbarity of the atrocities committed by Hamas, The Hollywood Reporter noted.

Oscar-winning director Guy Nattiv, who helped bring the film to the U.S., credited famed Israeli actress Gal Gadot, of “Wonder Woman” fame, and her husband Yaron Varsano, for helping him make the screening possible.

And once it was over, history essentially began repeating itself.


The media is truly beclowning themselves these days with their “both sides” pretzel-bending, not to mention being caught using freelancers who are either tight with Hamas or Hamas themselves who “covered” October 7th for certain big name media outlets.

Nearly every single day since October 7th, we are seeing example after example of casual anti-Semitism, overt anti-Semitism, or violent anti-Semitism all across the world. The social contract dam has been broken, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. And we have a generation of students on college campuses who have been “educated” to see everything in a power vacuum dictated solely by skin color. The truth is eye-opening for these people to hear.


But things are going to get worse before they get better, and the anti-Semites have zero sense of irony, or any awareness that they are the baddies.


Meanwhile, we would all do well to remember that evil is not stopping. Evil is ripping down a missing poster for no good reason except that evil is bothered by the faces of the innocent. Evil is attacking people for seeing a film that challenges their preferred narrative. Evil is smashing windows and screaming at people for daring to be Jewish in public. Evil is the assault that turns into manslaughter.


The real question is, what are the good people going to do to stand up to evil? Just clean up the glass after Kristallnacht is over this time? Or can those with a conscience still speak loudly enough to send the anti-Semites scurrying away? I’m afraid that the West doesn’t have much of a conscience any more.

Featured image: the day after Kristallnacht (November 10, 1938) via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, public domain

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  • Cameron says:

    Or can those with a conscience still speak loudly enough to send the anti-Semites scurrying away?

    I hate to sound a bit black pillish but we are past the point where words are going to stop these people.

  • SCOTTtheBADGER says:

    Can California, upon conviction, sentence Alnaji to death?

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