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GCSE Coursework: The Holocaust
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James Wilmshurst 30/11/2004 10S GCSE Coursework: The Holocaust Question 1 In Germany in 1939 Jews were discriminated against in many ways. The turning point of the Nazi's hatred was underlined in late 1938 on 9th November. A Jew had killed a German diplomat in Paris because he was angry at the way his parents had been treated by the Nazi's. So, on 9th November Josef Goebbels used this incident as an excuse to start a riot. This riot was to prove key in the Nazi's war against Jews. Police and the SA began to destroy Jewish shops, homes and synagogues throughout Germany, 7000 Jewish businesses were wrecked, between 20000 and 30000 were arrested and put in concentration camps and nearly 200 synagogues were destroyed, but, surprisingly, only 90 were killed. These 3 nights were later named 'Kristallnacht' meaning Crystal Night. After Kristallnacht discrimination got much, much worse. Anybody of Jewish religion were...
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