The German government blames the Jewish population for the destruction and then imposed a fine of one billion marks, which is equivalent to about four hundred million United States dollars. Also, the Reich government confiscated all insurance payouts that is going to the Jewish community whose properties were damaged, therefore they are personally responsible for the cost of repairments. Kristallnacht turns out to be a crucial turning point in German policy of regarding the Jewish population and may be considered as the actual beginning of the Shoah, also know as the Holocaust. When the United States and the rest of the world heard about this, some took a large role in the discussion, and newspapers are describing the event, like in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York …show more content…
After a couple of days later, on November 12, there was a meeting. The meeting was a two-fold, meaning it’s called to discuss two reasons. One of them is for to make Jews responsible for the pogrom, and second is to use the events of days that will occur later as a sense to broadcast a series of laws which would eventually remove the Jewish population from the German economy. After Kristallnacht, the attack on Jews, direct and indirect, were now more concentrated in the hands of the SS. Kristallnacht is a turning point in Hitler’s plan of erasing all Jews, which means now Germans, like the Nazis and the SS, are now ecstatic to destroy the entire Jewish population. The pogrom was attempted to eradicate European Jews. About one hundred Jews were murdered during Kristallnacht, and the German firemen were ordered to do nothing as Jewish-owned buildings burned, though they are, in fact, allowed to put out fires that are getting too close or threatening to burn down properties that are owned by Germans or