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48 hours of Kristallnacht : night of destruction/dawn of the Holocaust : an oral history /

Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey, 1959-

48 hours of Kristallnacht : night of destruction/dawn of the Holocaust : an oral history / Forty-eight hours of Kristallnacht Mitchell G. Bard. - Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2008. - 240 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.

Warning signs -- A harsh childhood -- Coming of age, and heroes of another age -- Good-bye daddy -- Walking through the looking glass -- Synagogues aflame -- Righteous Germans -- Taking lives -- The road to hell -- Heinrich MuÌller's orders to all Gestapo offices -- Heydrich's instructions for Kristallnacht -- Estimated number of Jews killed in the final solution -- Partial list of towns in which synagogues were destroyed -- Jewish emigration from the greater Reich (including Austria and Czechoslovakia) -- Shoah Foundation testimonies.

The first book to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context.

9781599214450 1599214458

1286391 QBI

2008024727

GBA8B2434 bnb

014760873 Uk


Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
Kristallnacht, 1938.
Jews--History--Germany--1933-1945.

DS134.255 / .B37 2008

940.53/1842

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