Raid Forever 🏴‍☠️

On this day-November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht: Nazi-led mobs burned synagogues, destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses, and sent 30,000 Jewish men to concentration camps. Most ordinary Germans disapproved, but almost none spoke out. Goebbels' propaganda claimed it was a spontaneous reaction to the Paris shooting of a German diplomat. But the pogrom was organized from the top with Nazi agitators dressing in civilian clothes to make it seem grassroots. The next day, Hitler's regime imposed a one billion mark "atonement fine" on the Jews, and ordered the Aryaniation of all remaining Jewish property. But it was the silence from the public that made the next steps toward Jewish annihilation so much easier.