48 hours of Kristallnacht
Subtitle: night of destruction/dawn of the Holocaust : an oral history
By: Mitchell G. Bard.
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781599214450
Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany; Kristallnacht, 1938; Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
Description: 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to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Warning signs; title: A harsh childhood; title: Coming of age, and heroes of another age; title: Good-bye daddy; title: Walking through the looking glass; title: synagogues aflame; title: Righteous Germans; title: Taking lives; title: The road to hell; title: Heinrich Müller's orders to all Gestapo offices; title: Heydrich's instructions for Kristallnacht; title: Estimated number of Jews killed in the final solution; title: Partial list of towns in which synagogues were destroyed; title: Jewish emigration from the greater Reich (including Austria and Czechoslovakia); title: Shoah Foundation testimonies.