Ernst Marcus on November 9th, 1938: ‘The Winter Sky Over Berlin was Blood-Red’

berlinspectator.com ^ | Nov 9, 2020 | Imanuel Marcus

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Ernst Marcus, a Berlin lawyer, woke up in his apartment in the German capital’s Grunewald district eighty-two years ago. What he saw was unbelievable.

Berlin, November 9th, 2019, updated November 9th 2020 (The Berlin Spectator) — “All of a sudden, the winter sky over Berlin was blood-red”, Dr. jur. Ernst Marcus wrote. His account of the events during the Night of Broken Glass, written in German, is part of the archive at Yad Vashem, the official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Israel.

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Note: Ernst Marcus (1900-1973) was the author’s grandfather.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Kristallnacht

[Berlin_Freeper]

Schicksalstag

[jmacusa]

Some say The Holocaust began on the night of November 9, 1938.

It really began the moment Adolf Hitler opened his mouth and the German people shut theirs.

[American in Israel]

Nice turn of phrase, bravo!

[patriotfury]

So true!