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48 hours of Kristallnacht : night of destruction/dawn of the Holocaust : an oral history / Mitchell G. Bard.

By: Publication details: Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2008.Description: 240 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781599214450
  • 1599214458
Other title:
  • Forty-eight hours of Kristallnacht
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/1842 22
LOC classification:
  • DS134.255 .B37 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks DS134.255 .B37 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001052876

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to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context.

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