Jewish responses to Nazism in Vienna after the Anschluss
TitleJewish responses to Nazism in Vienna after the Anschluss
Author
Call number940.5318/0549
Object number10651e
Place of publicationMadison, Wisconsin, United States
PublisherThe University of Wisconsin Press
Year of publication
2020
Physical descriptionpp60-80
MaterialArticle
Series titleHarvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
NotesArticle from the book 'Understanding and teaching the Holocaust' pp60-80
Description
For all Jews within Greater Germany in November 1938, Kristallnacht would surface as a final warning sign of the Nazis' intentions to rid its country of the Jews. On the evening of November 9-10 a mass frenzy of destruction in towns and cities throughout Germany, Austria and the Sudentenland was unleashed. The SS and Gestapo arrested more than 30,000 Jewish men for deportation to Dachau, Buchenwald or Sachsenhausen. This invoked a new degree of panic and desperation to escape