Word: kristallnacht
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...discussion, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's Forum Committee, commemorated the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night generally considered to be the beginning of the Holocaust...
...German word Kristallnacht refers to the glass broken during the night's destruction...
James Carroll, director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide at the Kennedy School of Government, illustrated this denial by quoting headlines printed in The New York Times in the days immediately following Kristallnacht...
...Most people who attended already knew what Kristallnacht was, but it brought a deeper awareness and helped put it into the context of what's happening in the world today," said Justin P. Finnegan...
...Although he undertook an essentially patriotic mission to evaluate Nazi aviation for U.S. authorities, he seemed to make excuses for Hitler, even in the face of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and other evidence of the Nazis' murderous intentions toward the Jews. In October 1938, a month before Kristallnacht, at a dinner at the residence of the American ambassador in Berlin, Hermann Goring surprised everyone by decorating Lindbergh--"by order of der Fuhrer"--with the Service Cross of the German Eagle, a golden cross with four small swastikas. Inexplicably, Lindbergh refused, then and later, to return the medal...