NP Kristallnacht

[Otto]

> >
> > 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.
>

Historically and about that continuum you're absolutely right. My remark was
about the remembrance of the "common" people over here and meant in the
sense of what you've called correctly "a landmark event."

Otto