"Make sure it never happens again"~Kristallnacht.

The quote above is from a lady named Susan (Strauss) Taube. She and her father who escaped from Germany were survivors of the Holocaust. She retells her story of Kristallnacht, which sums up how most German-Jews felt. She woke up on the morning of November 10th, and got ready to go to school, but was stopped and told to go back to her house. While she was out, she saw the nearest synagogue smashed down, with smoke still coming from where it had burned the night before. After she returned home, Nazis came into her house and destroyed everything, from books all the way to cutlery.

This event was the turning point for all that was to happen in Germany. There was no turning back now. As many as an estimated 1668 synagogues were destroyed and and 91 Jews killed. Although, the Nazis said there was 275 synagogues destroyed and 100 Jews killed. Kristallnacht was a huge part of the escalation of persecution of Jews. The worst part about this was that at this point, no one reacted. Sure, it was too late for an individual to stand up, but what about the countries? Where were France, Spain, Italy, or the US? Surely they had heard about it? We don't know why no countries stood up by that point, but how come individuals hadn't before? How had everyone fallen so quickly under Hitler's spell?

One of the reasons was the Nazi's Propaganda. Propaganda is, according to the dictionary,'information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation,...' One of the things the Nazis did really well was persuading people with their propaganda. The reason that Germans accepted the way the Nazis were treating the Jews was because everywhere they turned it was drilled into them- that Jews are bad. Are they actually? No. They were just picking on the minority. Joesph Goebbels (the leader of propaganda for the Nazis,) once said that "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."