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How the World Shrugged Off Kristallnacht
ABC News ^ | 11/09/2013 | Klaus Wiegrefe

Posted on 11/10/2013 9:28:53 AM PST by Rusty0604

The second wave came during the course of the next day, as the Hungarian chargé d'affaires reported from the German capital: "In the afternoon, after school, 14- to 18-year-old teenagers, mostly members of the Hitler Youth, were unleashed on the shops. They forced their way into the businesses, where they turned things upside down, destroyed all furniture and everything made of glass, jumbled all the merchandise and then, while cheering for Hitler, left the scene to search for other places to ransack. In the city's eastern districts, the local populace also looted the devastated shops."

As instructed, the perpetrators were not wearing party uniforms. Goebbels wanted the public to believe that the pogrom was a reflection of "the justified and understandable outrage of the German people" over the death of Rath, the diplomat -- and that the police were powerless.

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And they didn't have social media to blame.
1 posted on 11/10/2013 9:28:53 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

2 people in that picture seem to be laughing


2 posted on 11/10/2013 9:31:47 AM PST by italianquaker
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To: Rusty0604

And the Left wants us all disarmed and afraid to confront evil.


3 posted on 11/10/2013 9:35:23 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Rusty0604

Actually the world celebrated by handing Israel to Iran.

But after all the money, campaign help and votes the Jews gave to Obama, it’s hard to feel sorry for them.


4 posted on 11/10/2013 9:44:34 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Rusty0604; max americana
This is NOT the story of how Adolf Hitler Seized Power in Germany, but how and why the German People gave it him......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXc6CSZPfM

5 posted on 11/10/2013 10:01:20 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: FreedomPoster
And the Left wants us all disarmed and afraid to confront evil.

You would to, if you were evil.

6 posted on 11/10/2013 10:50:25 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Rusty0604

Hitler Youth remind me the flash mobs that organize on Obamaphones.


7 posted on 11/10/2013 12:07:08 PM PST by abclily
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To: abclily

That’s what I think.


8 posted on 11/10/2013 12:38:42 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

The NYT headline made Goebbels the hero. Paper hasn't changed much in 75 years.

9 posted on 11/10/2013 1:08:58 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Rusty0604
Most of the world doesn't know what Kristallnacht signifies. Nor do they care.
10 posted on 11/10/2013 1:24:31 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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