The events that occurred between November 9th and 10th are known as Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht is more commonly known as the Night of Broken Glass, which best describes what happened, with Jewish shops and synagogues across Germany and Austria in large cities and small towns being looted, vandalized or burned. The political atmosphere of the time was heavy with anti-Semitic views; Kristallnacht was caused by the killing in Paris of a German diplomat called Vom Rath, who was fatally wounded the day before Kristallnacht and ultimately died of his wounds on the evening of November 9; this caused party members and active supporters to increase pressure on Jews in Germany. Although Vom Rath's death was not caused by a German Jew, but by a Polish Jew who had been living in France for some time. The Times wrote: "Jews in Germany and Austria were yesterday subjected, in retaliation for the death of Mr. Vom Rath, to an organized campaign of looting, destruction and violence." This shows that the Nazis used their usual scapegoat: the German and Austrian Jews involved in the shooting and that they should have paid for it even if the Jew who killed Vom Rath was Polish. To further persecute German and Austrian Jews, Nazi officials decreed during the pogrom that no foreign citizen, even if Jewish, could be attacked. By November 11, 1938 the world knew what had happened in Germany and Austria. The event was so widely covered that correspondents around the world wrote extensively about Kristallnacht, "there were several hundred foreign journalists in Germany, including those from major international news agencies, who freely reported what they saw and heard ". The event has...... middle of paper......st or pardon was granted for their role. Kristallnacht showed the world that the Nazis had a visceral hatred of the Jews and would do anything to destroy them. The conclusion to be drawn from the historical context is that the Times does not support or agree with the pogrom organized by the Nazis and follows more or less the same point of view as the world; putting the Nazis in a bad light and that Kristallnacht was a horrible event that should never have happened. Works Cited Evans, Richard J., The Third Reich in Power (Penguin; London. 2006) Graml, Herman, Antisemitism in the Third Reich (Blackwell; Oxford. 1992) Gilbert, Martin, Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction (Harper Press; London . 2006) McKale, Donald, A case of Nazi "justice": the punishment of party members involved in Kristallnacht, 1938, Jewish Social Studies, Vol.35, No. 3/4 (July-October 1973), pp.. 228-238