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  • A contemporary account of the German pogroms of November 1938 - World Socialist Web Site

    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/07/kris-j07.html

    Shortly after the November 1938 pogroms, journalist and historian Konrad Heiden wrote a work entitled Night Oath, in which he gave a detailed account of the horrific events marking the transition from social discrimination to the systematic brutalization and persecution of Jews in Germany.

    Heiden’s study is based on numerous eyewitness reports collected by the Jewish Central Information Office and the exiled Social Democratic Party, foreign press articles, and an analysis of the Nazi press. It appeared in early 1939 under the title of The New Inquisition in English, Tyskland i fara in Swedish and Les vêpres hitlériennes in French. A Dutch edition was planned, but it was eventually banned by the Dutch prime minister, in order to avoid harming Holland’s relations with Nazi Germany.

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