Title: 48 hours of Kristallnacht : night of destruction/dawn of the Holocaust : an oral history /
Authors: Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey, 1959-
Publisher: Lyons Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Antisemitism Germany; Jews Persecutions Germany.; Kristallnacht, 1938; Jews Germany History
Abstract: The first book to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context.
Contents: Warning signs -- A harsh childhood -- Coming of age, and heroes of another age -- Good-bye daddy -- Walking through the looking glass -- Synagogues aflame -- Righteous Germans -- Taking lives -- The road to hell -- Heinrich Müller's orders to all Gestapo offices -- Heydrich's instructions for Kristallnacht -- Estimated number of Jews killed in the final solution -- Partial list of towns in which synagogues were destroyed -- Jewish emigration from the greater Reich (including Austria and Czechoslovakia) -- Shoah Foundation testimonies.