October 26, 2016 Wednesday
Bedtime Story
Conditions Were Perfect for the Reich to Orchestrate its First Pogrom
Conditions Were Perfect for the Reich to Orchestrate its First Pogrom
November 9, the day Ernst vom Rath was declared dead was very
special for the Nazis.
On the very same day, in 1923, fifteen years ago, Hitler and his
gang of Nazi thugs had tried to seize power in Munich, Bavaria.
This failed coup is famously known as the Beer Hall Putsch from
where Adolf Hitler actually rose to fame.
The Nazis considered it as their most celebrated day and
designated it as the “Day of the Movement”.
It was the first time that Hitler gave the demonstration of his
magical oratory skill.
Dr. Karl Mueller, an eye witness of the event and also a professor
of modern history had to say this after Adolf Hitler gave a short speech to the
crowded auditorium explaining the reason for the putsch:
“I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in attitude of
a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds…
“Hitler had turned them inside out, as one turns a glove inside
out, with a few sentences.
It had almost something of hocus-pocus, or magic about it”.
The date set the mind of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph
Goebbels racing.
He knew how to exploit it.
He came forth with a crafty, Machiavellian speech in the same beer
hall where 15 years ago Hitler had given his.
In it he said that it would be perfectly understandable if the
German people outraged by this assassination would take the law into their own
hands and stormed Jewish homes, businesses and places of worship.
He said, “Führer has decided that such demonstrations should not
be organized by the party, but in so far as they erupt spontaneously, they are
not to be hampered.”
Having said this, the dogs were let loose (essentially party men
in civilian clothes) with secret telegrams sent by Reinhard Heydrich to the
police and security personnel not to interfere in such “spontaneous rioting”.
Kristallnacht had begun by 10.30 pm of the November 9, 1938 barely
2 hours after the death of vom Rath.
I must bring to your notice mon ami that Kristallnacht is a classic
and a thoroughly studied example of the way any riot, pogrom and genocide is orchestrated
by the state against any ethnic minority.
We in South Asia have the privilege of witnessing such bloodbath
with unsurprising regularity so much so that they scarcely shock us, amaze us
or for that matter, interest us.
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Good night and my fellow cousin ape.
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Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an IIT graduate and
a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda another powerful orator found the death of vom Rath and the date November 9 the perfect combination to spew his antisemitic venom on to the masses
Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda another powerful orator found the death of vom Rath and the date November 9 the perfect combination to spew his antisemitic venom on to the masses
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