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Stephanie Seul
New Perspectives on Kristallnacht, 12/2019Book Chapter
The anti-Jewish pogrom staged by the Nazis during the night of November 9–10, 1938 was carried out in the full glare of world publicity.¹ The Nazis made no attempt to conceal evidence of the atrocities, which subsequently became known as Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass.² The Nazi terror deeply shocked the British government and public, particularly as it came only a few weeks after the Munich Agreement, which Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain considered a first step towards a peaceful settlement with Hitler. The pogrom helped, more than anything else, to harden British opinion towards Germany.³ Given the development
