Crystal Night

[bobthedrummer]

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERcrystal.htm

[bobthedrummer]

1. November 9-10 1938, Germany.

Crystal Night.

[Lefty48197]

2. Kristal Nacht

Perhaps the worst day in human history.

Do not ever believe, even for one minute, that people did not know what was going on in Hitler's Germany.

Everyone knew.

The Europeans knew, the Americans knew, Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, and Bugs Bunny all knew.

It wasn't that people didn't know, it was that people didn't do anything about it. It took Pearl Harbor to get us into the war.

[NNN0LHI]

4. The New York Times knew n/t

[bobthedrummer]

3. I wonder if IBM helped out on Crystal Night

like they did at Auschwitz
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0241/black.php

[seemslikeadream]

14. The Buchenwald concentration camp

was among the most infamous in Germany. Here, as elsewhere, the Third Reich's officials kept records on each prisoner, and each prisoner had to go through registration. Most of the Jews sent to Buchenwald were soon shipped out to other camps.

Devices such as the Dehomag D11 tabulating machine permitted the SS to keep track of the huge numbers of prisoners held in concentration camps. Manufactured by the German Hollerith Machine Company, a subsiduary of IBM, this data processing apparatus was state of the art in the 1930s

The camp initially housed political prisoners, but was enlarged in 1938 to take in large numbers of Jews. In the wake of Kristallnacht, more than 10,000 Jews filled the barracks. At war's end in April 1945, more than 47,000 were imprisoned there.

http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/StaticPages/116.html

[bobthedrummer]

15. IBM used census records in punchcard with address to locate

Jews. And they streamlined the data for the SS.

[bobthedrummer]

5. The Pope knew, as did most Catholics in Germany IMO

n/t

[Liberator_Rev]

16. If anybody doubts that, see http://www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/RCscandal

If anybody doubts that, see http://www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/RCscandal , which shows how much Pius XII contributed to Hitler's rise to power and to the Holocaust.

[DUreader]

6. Presscott(sp?) knew!

[bobthedrummer]

7. Henry Ford knew.

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[bobthedrummer]

8. I don't know their names-20,000 jews sent to concentration camps

but I'll remember the history forever about Crystal Night.

[OneTwentyoNine]

9. actually---Kristallnacht--Night of Broken Glass ....how far away are we?

With Asscracks PA1 and 2 I don't think we're all that far away. Shut down a strip bar the other day because it could have been a haven for "terra". Oh,you fucking bet John!! Damn,I feel soooo much safer now.....


David

[bobthedrummer]

10. I'm as American as can be and I could see something like this

happening under*. Really.

[bobbieinok]

11. See PBS documentary

America and the Holocaust. It came out about the same time Schindler's List was released.

90 minutes.

One of the worst parts: state dept under Breckinridge Lowe (sp) was very WASP and anti-semitic. They sent orders to the US consulate in Lisbon to delay every Jewish request for immigration.

Also compares the delay/denial (?) of admitting 20,000 Jewish children to the US to the immediate acceptance of British children sent to US.

[bobthedrummer]

12. And consider that after the war Nazis were clandestinely "recruited"

by the US. War criminals, in some cases, given identities and jobs as Americans involved in national security in the war against godless communism!
Betrayal of the worst sort IMHO.

[corarose]

13. Maybe we should ponder the thought that

We are the sitting ducks now that will be put into concentration camps a exterminated if we don't leave the country before it's too late.