Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- 1 Historiography of the Holocaust: Early Developments
- 2 The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration
- 3 From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
- 4 The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Origins of the Commensurability Problem
- 5 Fascism and Holocaust
- 6 The Holocaust and Modernity
- 7 Integrated Approaches and Boundaries in Holocaust Scholarship
- 8 Mapping the Holocaust
- 9 Archiving the Holocaust
- 10 Antisemitism in Interwar Europe
- 11 Race-Thinking, Völkisch-Nationalism, and Eugenics
- 12 Inter-ethnic Violence in Europe before the Holocaust
- 13 Communism and Anticommunism
- 14 Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933
- 15 Hitler and the Nazi Party
- 16 Hitler, State, and Party
- 17 Antisemitic Policy in the Early Years of the Third Reich
- 18 Popular Participation in Anti-Jewish Policy up to 1938
- 19 Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939
- 20 “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
- 21 Belonging and Belongings: The Dispossession of German Jews
- 22 Kristallnacht
- 23 Lebensraum, Autarky, and a New Imperial Order
- 24 International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939
- Index
- References
22 - Kristallnacht
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- 1 Historiography of the Holocaust: Early Developments
- 2 The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration
- 3 From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
- 4 The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Origins of the Commensurability Problem
- 5 Fascism and Holocaust
- 6 The Holocaust and Modernity
- 7 Integrated Approaches and Boundaries in Holocaust Scholarship
- 8 Mapping the Holocaust
- 9 Archiving the Holocaust
- 10 Antisemitism in Interwar Europe
- 11 Race-Thinking, Völkisch-Nationalism, and Eugenics
- 12 Inter-ethnic Violence in Europe before the Holocaust
- 13 Communism and Anticommunism
- 14 Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933
- 15 Hitler and the Nazi Party
- 16 Hitler, State, and Party
- 17 Antisemitic Policy in the Early Years of the Third Reich
- 18 Popular Participation in Anti-Jewish Policy up to 1938
- 19 Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939
- 20 “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
- 21 Belonging and Belongings: The Dispossession of German Jews
- 22 Kristallnacht
- 23 Lebensraum, Autarky, and a New Imperial Order
- 24 International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter conveys the origins, course, impact, and consequences of Kristallnacht, locating the events of November 1938 in the longer-term trajectory of Nazi domestic and foreign policy; explores the extent and forms of popular participation in the violence and popular responses to the destruction; pursues the shorter- and longer-term impact of Kristallnacht for the victims (though emigration will be dealt with in Volume III); examines the shifts in Nazi policy in the wake of Kristallnacht, and the shifts of institutional power that accompanied it, and again considers the relationship between antisemitism and foreign policy.
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- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 461 - 483Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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