... Germanic background for fear of marring the gene pool.1 "Krystalnacht", often translated as "The Night of the Broken Glass", was a night of terror for many German Jews: hundreds of synagogues and Jewish shops were destroyed in a single evening in November 1938. This systematic persecution of the German Jewry, was sufficient to drive more than 250,000 Jews from Germany by 1939, although not comparable to the mass executions that occurred later during the war. Throughout the early maltreatment of the German Jews was a prophetic foreshadowing of what was to come, as on the 30th of January 1939 Hitler proclaimed that in the event of a war: "The result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth and thus the victory of the Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."2 In November of the same year, an article in the Times describes in detail a Nazi plan to ...

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