At 11:55 pm on November 9, 1938, Heinrich Müller, chief of the Gestapo, issued an order to all Gestapo offices that began with the following sentence: “Actions against Jews, especially against their synagogues, will take place throughout the Reich shortly.” This understated language, of course, belies the savagery that befell the Jewish communities of Germany … Continue reading Remembering Kristallnacht