Nov 13 2022
News Comment #10
84 Years Later, a Rare Look at the Nazi Attacks of Kristallnacht
A former American serviceman had kept the photographs of the assaults on Jews during the 1938 pogrom, which is widely commemorated as the start of the Holocaust.
The chilling photos of the Nazi pogrom in 1938 gained new attention on the 84th anniversary of what is knows as the night of broken glass, or Kristallnacht. This night the organized and widespread on Jews started that are widely commemorated as the start of the Holocaust.
The pictures were found in an album that had been secreted away by a former American soldier. After he died, the album with the pictures was donated to the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel. This served to refocus attention on both the images and the night itself.
“We can see from the extreme close-up nature of these photos that the photographers were an integral part of the event depicted,” said Mr. Matthews. “The angles and proximity to the perpetrators seem to indicate a clear goal, to document the events that took place.”
The new attention on these newly discovered photos came as politicians in Berlin commemorated the anniversary in the shadow of an increase in antisemitic crimes.
“The night of Nov. 9, 1938, will forever remain a night of shame for our country,” Nancy Faeser, Germany’s interior minister, said in Parliament on Wednesday
The topic of this article is definitely one that speaks to everyone, which makes it even more newsworthy. The events of World War II had a big impact on all countries. So, in my opinion, any topic that involves events of this time period is important for people to hear or read about. This is our history after all. The article does well of explaining what was found and describing why the discovered photos gained new attention on this horrible event. The author explains very clear what he wants to talk about and also gives a short but clear explanation of the event, the Kristallnacht, that it had to do with. This makes it easy to follow for everyone who reads it. It’s a straight forward, well written article.
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