Kristallnach

• Why did Nazis stage Kristallnacht?

  • 1938
  • A 17 year old Polish Jew (Hershel Grynszpan) shot a random German at German embassy in Paris
• What happened during the kristallnacht?


  9 and 10 November 1938

  • Nazis destroyed 7500 Jewish businesses
  • burnt 400 synagogues
  • 20000 Jews to concentration camps
  • 100 Jews were killed
  • Jews forced to pay 1 billion for the damage
• What was the Wannsee Conference? + other name for it?


  • 1942
  • 6 death camps were built in Poland
  • the final solution