With Kristallnacht, the Germans made clearer than ever two things that everyone could discern: the Jews had no place in Germany, and the Nazis wanted to spill Jewish blood. To destroy a community's institutions is psychologically almost the same and almost as satisfying as destroying its people. As a general "cleansing" of Germany of Jewish synagogues, Kristallnacht was a proto-genocidal assault.
-Hitler's Willing Executioners Ordinary Germans And The Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen pg.140-141
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