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Situating the atrocities in a broader historical contexts, Bernstein traced the implementation of anti-Semitic laws established by the Nazis, beginning with the so-called "Law for Restoration of the Public Service," which expelled all Jews that worked for the German state...
...talk, Bernstein said that current understanding of event’s history would help ensure that a similar atrocity will not be repeated...
...morning of Nov. 10, more than 7,000 Jewish businesses had been destroyed, 200 synagogues burned down, and cemeteries and schools vandalized. Bernstein said it would have taken the leading Belgian industry a full year to produce the amount of glass destroyed in that one night...
Kristallnacht became the first state-sponsored physical brutality against the Jewish people, according to Bernstein, who called the pogrom "organized spontaneity...
...Bernstein suggested that contemporary Americans might be able to relate more easily to educated, urbane citizens struck down by government, legislation, and bystanders in Kristallnacht than to the phantasmagorical skeletons of Auschwitz...