KRISTALLNACHT: UNLEASHING THE HOLOCAUST

Author: Anthony Read and David Fisher

Publisher: Macmillan

Year published: 1991

Pagination: 306pp, 36 b/w photos

Condition: fine in card cover

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Recounts the slaughter of Jews and the looting and destruction of over 75,000 Jewish businesses, Synagogues and Community Centres by the Nazis during the night of 9th November 1939. Krystallnacht followed the murder in Paris of a German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, by a young Jew, Herschel Grynszpan. The Nazis attempted to portray the killings as spontaneous, and the book discusses the lack of a vigorous response from the West.