1.  starter activity
What did the Nazis do to persecute the Jewish community?  Can you make at least 3 links between the images?

2. Why was Kristallnacht allowed to happen?
 Key words: Third Reich, pogrom
Why was Kristallnacht allowed to happen?
 LOs
To identify & evaluate the reasons why the ‘The Night of Broken Glass’ took place

3. Make a list with your partner of anti-Semitic measures against Jews up to 1938.
 Apart from Jews which other groups in German society were attacked?

4. Anti-Semitism
1933, Jewish people sacked from key professions, e.g. judges & teachers
Boycott of Jewish shops
1935, Nuremberg Laws banning inter-racial marriages
1938, Jews forced to use Israel & Sara as part of their names
Jews banned from schools
Children banned from playing together

5.  Your task
Read p.68 and note down as many reasons why Kristallnacht took place.
How did cartoons like this from the Nazi newspaper, ‘Der Stŭrmer’ help to feed popular anti-Semitism?

6. Reasons why Kristallnacht occurred
Growing antipathy towards Jews in government laws and measures
Suspicions of Jews by ordinary Germans
Murder of German ambassador, Herr von Rath
Police authorities encouraged or failed to stop rioting
Support from senior Nazis – Goebbels wanted to win Hitler’s approval

7.  Your task
Study the sources on p and complete the chart your teacher provides.  Why do some historians prefer to describe this event as the November pogroms?.
Kristallnacht, 1938

8. This house believes that Kristallnacht occurred as a result of a well-organised campaign by the leaders of the Third Reich

9.  Plenary Evidence of anti-Semitism before 1938
Reasons for Kristallnacht
Who was responsible?
Why did the rest of the world stand by?

10.  Extension
Herschel Grynzspan’s murder of German diplomat Ernst von Rath was the catalyst that sparked Kristallnacht. Find out what motivated Rath’s killer.