Nazi Telegram with Instructions for Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938

On November 10, 1938, the telegram from Gen. Gen. Reinhard Heydrich translated the instructions to the local German authorities on how to carry out anti-Semitic measures known as Kristallnacht.

As a result of assassination of Minister's Secretary Vom Rath in Paris, it is expected that the entire Imperial Demo will be held from 9th to 10th November 1938. To handle these events, the following commands are issued:

1) After receiving this telegram, the director of the political police [Gestapo] or its agent must immediately contact the appropriate political authorities in the area [local Nazi leader]. . . Please arrange a discussion about the demonstration on the phone. Discussions should include competent attorney general or commander's commander. .

[Regional] Political authorities will be told that the German police received the following order from the empire SS and German police chief, and the actions of the political authorities should be adjusted accordingly:

a) Such behavior can only be done without threatening the life and property of Germany (eg synagogues are burned only in the absence of fire threatening the surrounding environment).

b) Jewish shops and residences can only be destroyed and can not be robbed. The police supervised the order and was instructed to arrest the predator

c) Special attention should be paid to companies other than Jewish businesses in commercial districts from complete damage

2). . The police should not stop the ongoing demonstration, but only the director is in line with the guidelines.

3). . In order not to be destroyed during the demo, the police caught existing archive materials at all synagogues and offices of the Jewish Community Center. . . . It will be handed over to [this material]. . . Sustainability Office

4) The instructions of the security police [political and criminal divisions] related to the anti-Jewish demonstration belong to the political police authorities as long as the security police inspector does not issue orders. Criminal officers and security forces (SD), SS paramilitary forces and SS officers may be required to conduct security police operations.

5) As long as the designated policeman can be used for this purpose during the nighttime events, like many Jews who can accommodate existing detention facilities, especially wealthy Jews. Currently, only healthy male Jews who are not too young are arrested. Immediately after the arrest, it is necessary to contact the appropriate concentration camp to bring the Jews to the refugee camp as soon as possible. Special attention should be paid to Jews arrested from abuse under this direction

6) The contents of the order are handed to competent inspectors and commanders who command the police and local and local authorities for sustainable development. . .

The police chief issued instructions to the police station including the fire brigade. Tight coordination between security police and order police during the orderly operation

On the evening of 9 to 10 November 1938, Dr. Josef Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, caused a violent outbreak called Kristallnacht ("Crystal Knight", a night of broken glass). When the police stopped, Nazi Stormtrooper in private clothes burned the synagogue, invaded the Jewish house in Germany, Austria, threatened and beat the men, women and children. 91 Jews were murdered, over 20,000 men were arrested and brought to concentration camps. Later, the Jewish community was fined 1 billion empire marks to pay for that loss

From 9th November to 10th November 1938, at the event called "Kristallnacht", the German Nazis burned the synagogue, destroyed Jewish houses, schools, businesses and killed nearly 100 people . After Kristallnacht, also known as the Jewish "Crushing Glass Night", about 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Since the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) became the German Prime Minister in 1933, the German Jews have been subject to repression policies. But prior to Kristallnacht, these Nazi policies were primarily nonviolent. After Kristallnacht, the situation of German Jews is getting worse. During the Second World War (1939 - 45), Hitler and Nazis implemented what they call "final solution" they call "Jewish problems", systematically about 6 million They killed people European Jews. Later known as the Holocaust