TY - BOOK AU - Bard,Mitchell Geoffrey TI - 48 hours of Kristallnacht: night of destruction/dawn of the Holocaust : an oral history SN - 9781599214450 AV - DS134.255 .B37 2008 U1 - 940.53/1842 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Guilford, Conn. PB - Lyons Press KW - Jews KW - Persecutions KW - Germany KW - Kristallnacht, 1938 KW - History KW - 1933-1945 N1 - 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 N2 - 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to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2008024727-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2008024727-t.html ER -