This is a very significant spot, in the start of the
Holocaust. The Nuremburg Laws
ended German Citizenship for Jewish People. Many people were loaded onto trains and deported. Some people were sent to Poland but the
Polish government anticipated a large influx of immigrants and passed a law,
just days before saying that if you hadn’t lived in Poland within the last five
years you weren’t a Polish citizen either. Therefore lots of people could not be in either country,
winter was coming, and they had no supplies.
One lady wrote a letter to her son who was living in Paris
asking him to send them anything he could spare to help them out. Her son interpreted this as a goodbye
letter and went to the German Embassy and shot the secretary. When Hitler heard of this he was at the
Nazi Headquarters (the three windows) in The Old Town Hall in Munich and ordered
his followers to go into the streets in normal clothing and start a riot. This was the start to
Krisallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.
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