NP Kristallnacht

[davemarc]

From: Otto <o.sell at telda.net>
>
> More interestingly is maybe that the term itself has been "banned" by pc
> (like "negro" in your language) in German, because it had been invented by
> the nazis and had made the "event" look more harmless than it had been.
The
> official German term now is "Reichspogromnacht" - but in the memory of the
> people this night will stay the "Kristallnacht" - the real, obvious and
open
> beginning of the persecution of the Jews in Germany; the first step to, as
I
> believe inevitably, the war and to Auschwitz.
>
With all due respect, it's not accurate to call Kristallnacht "the real,
obvious and open beginning of the persecution of the Jews in Germany."
Certainly it was a landmark event in the history of German and Nazi
persecution of Jews that clarified the dire situation.  But it was part of a
continuum.

d.