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| Approaching a Horrific Anniversary in Jewish History: Kristallnacht |
| 2018-11-04 |
| [American Thinker] As Jews and people of conscience of all ethnicities reel from the horrors that took place at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, we once again approach another heinous epoch in Jewish history: the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. With that in mind, it's important to remember that Kristallnacht and its aftermath the Holocaust did not occur in a vacuum. With the exception of insular Holocaust-deniers, most people have heard and recognize the unspeakable horrors and inhumanity Jews suffered all over Europe during this horrific period in time. However, not so many are familiar with the vehement anti-Semitism that permeated Eastern Europe and Russia at the dawn of 20th century. Beginning in the 1880s and ending for the most part around 1922, there were three distinct, increasingly violent cycles of debasement committed against the Jewish people. In what is collectively known as pogroms, perpetrators on both the right and left took turns raping, murdering, and looting the property of helpless Jewish victims, lacking only in scale and organization what was to come a decade later. If nothing else, the pogroms portrayed Jews as defenseless and their blood and property as easy pickings for marauding bands of mercenaries, a fact not lost upon later generations of Ukrainians and Russians at the dawn of the 20th century as well as Hitler and his Nazi cohorts in the 1930s. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Well sure, but this is a biggish one, ed. Though the 75th ought to have resonated more... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-11-04 23:18 |
| #1 I would have thought that the anniversary passes every year. Who knew? (anni... annual ?) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-11-04 10:07 |