{"id":12844,"date":"2013-11-10T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12844"},"modified":"2013-11-10T19:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T18:51:24","slug":"75-years-later-how-the-world-shrugged-off-kristallnacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12844","title":{"rendered":"75 years later: how the world shrugged off Kristallnacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The pogroms in November 1938 lasted several days, although history books often refer to the event merely as one &#8220;Night of the Broken Glass&#8221; (<i>Kristallnacht<\/i>) because Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels announced on the radio on Nov. 10 that the excesses had ended.<\/p>\n<p>Experts estimate that up to 1,500 people died in the days surrounding Nov. 9. It was the worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>This week marks the 75th anniversary of what Leipzig-based historian Dan Diner has called the &#8216;catastrophe before the catastrophe&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an extract from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/berlin-exhibit-gathers-1938-diplomatic-accounts-of-nazi-kristallnacht-a-931733.html\">a powerful article<\/a> on a German web site to mark the 75th anniversary this weekend of the\u00a0horror of\u00a0<i>Kristallnacht.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The pogroms in November 1938 lasted several days, although history books often refer to the event merely as one &#8220;Night of the Broken Glass&#8221; (Kristallnacht) because Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels announced on the radio on Nov. 10 that the excesses had ended. Experts estimate that up to 1,500 people died in the days surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12849,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}