SocialS Was Kristallnacht Planned or Not?

How does evidence in this document show that “Kristallnacht” was planned in advance of the event actually happening? 

TO ALL REGIONAL AND SUB-REGIONAL GESTAPO OFFICES sent at 1:20AM, November 8, 1938 SUBJECT: MEASURES AGAINST THE JEWS THIS NIGHT That only such measures were to be taken that would not endanger German lives or property (e.g. the burning of synagogues was only to be carried out if there was no danger of fire spreading to the surrounding district).  Businesses and residences of Jews may be damaged but not looted. Particular care is to be paid in business sections and surrounding streets. Non-Jewish businesses are to be protected from damage under all circumstances. Police are to seize all archives from synagogues and offices of community organizations, this refers to material of historical significance. Archives are to be handed over to the SS. As soon as possible, officials are to arrest as many Jews especially wealthy ones - in all districts as can be accommodated in existing cells. For the time being, only healthy male Jews of not too advanced age are to be arrested. Signed by Reinhard Heydrich, SS Gruppenfürer 

The evidence that I found about Kristallnacht being a planned event as this letter was written only a day before Kristallnacht occurred. It is clearly planned, "SUBJECT: MEASURES AGAINST THE JEWS THIS NIGHT." Looking through the text, it is clear that they only wanna damage Jews and their property. Everything stated is an aggressive act on Jews.  

Kiwi-Fruit DNA extraction

Ingredients
1/2 kiwifruit
Access to clean water
Plastic sealable ball
Plastic cup
Shampoo 
Table Salt
Chilled Isopropyl alcohol (90%)
Spoon
Coffee filter
Clear Narrow Tube or Jar 

Method

Put half the kiwi fruit in a bag and put a bit of water into the bag then turn it into a mash.

Put tsp of shampoo, 2 pinches of salt and 4 tsps of water. Stir until the shampoo dissolves.

Add 2 tsp of Kiwi-fruit slushie to the soap solution and stir for 5 minutes.

Now use a coffee filter in a plastic cup to filter out all the kiwi chunks

Fill the narrow tube with 2tsp of cold isopropyl alcohol, then very carefully add tsps of the filtered kiwi fruit so that there are two layers of liquid.

let the tube sit for 2-3 minutes

Kristallnacht

This is my blog post on Kristallnacht.

What is meant by the term “Kristallnacht”? 
Night of the broken glass

When did this event occur?

November 9th and 10th 1938

How many synagogues did the programme claim were burned?

267 synagogues destroyed or burned

How many Jews were claimed to have died as a result of this event?

91 jews

How many were said to have been sent to concentration camps? 

30k jews were sent to concentration camps

What was the reaction of the German people to this event?

ecstatic, because they were convinced that Jews were on the bad side

THE NUREMBERG LAW BLOG POST

 THE NUREMBERG LAWS

At their annual party rally held in Nuremberg in September 1935, the Nazi leaders announced new laws based on many of the racial theories common in Nazi beliefs. These "Nuremberg Laws" excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or German-related blood." Additional regulations to these laws deprived them of most political rights. Jews were disenfranchised (that is, they had no right to vote) and could not hold public office. 

The Nuremberg Laws did not identify a "Jew" as someone with particular religious beliefs. Instead, the first amendment to the Nuremberg Laws defined anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew, regardless of whether that individual recognized himself or herself as a Jew or belonged to the Jewish religious community. Many Germans who had not practiced Judaism (the Jewish religion) or who had not done so for years found themselves caught in the grip of Nazi terror. Even people with Jewish grandparents who had converted to Christianity could be defined as Jews. 

The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 was the start of a new wave of anti-Semitic laws that brought about immediate segregation: Jewish patients were no longer admitted to municipal hospitals in Düsseldorf, German court judges could not refer to legal commentaries or opinions written by Jewish authors, Jewish officers were expelled from the army, and Jewish university students were not allowed to sit for doctoral exams. 

Other regulations reinforced the message that Jews were outsiders in Germany; for example, in December 1935, the Reich Propaganda Ministry issued a decree forbidding Jewish soldiers to be named among the dead in World War I memorials. 

Adapted from http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005681 

1. Provide two examples of ways in which the Nuremberg laws affected the rights of German Jews. 

Jew cannot marry any that has "german blood" in them, and from getting reich citizenship.

2. What other actions were taken that discriminated against Jews in Germany? (Remembering)

The holocaust, killing 6 million people.

3. Why do you think that the Nazis passed these laws? (Understanding)

Because they wanted no one to have enough power to stand up to them

4. If a New Zealand government passed a law that provided for different treatment of a named racial group in New Zealand, what do you think the reaction of most New Zealand people would be? Why do you think this might be the case? (Applying) a lot of rioting would occur with a lot of people also protesting against the this new law

5. Do you think these Nuremburg laws were racist? Explain your point of view. (Evaluating) I believe that this is severely racist, anything that is discriminating against one's heritage and race etc is racist

Hitlers anti semitism

TASK: 

Provide two quotes, one from each statement, which shows Hitler’s antisemitism. Explain how these statements represent anti-semitism. 

"The Jews were responsible for bringing negroes into the Rhineland" This shows his Anti-Semitism ways by believing that this is caused due to jews wanting to bastardise the white race "which they hate" 

"He wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people"

This shows that he sees jews as a different species, looking down upon jews having intercourse with the whites