Real History and Lies about Kristallnacht your Hitler index your Goebbels index Alphabetical index (text) Himmler’s version. Himmler expressed his fury afterwards that Goebbels had played fast and loose with his police units, issuing orders directly to them which had led to the outrages. (Source: Groscurth diary, December 29, 1938: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Tagebücher eines Abwehroffiziers 1938-1940 (Stuttgart 1970)).

Himmler noted in a memorandum: “When I asked the Führer about it, I had the impression that he did not know anything about these events.” Source: Himmler memorandum, cited by Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New York, 1973); quoted in GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH (page 281; and n73, page 614). under construction 2002

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