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In 1938, three gunshots rang out in France, why did Germany stage a "night of madness"

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Modern law is all about evidence and not implicating innocent people. Just like the previous shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, even such a sensational case in Japan was only the arrest of an assailant. If this is the case, why did the three gunshots in France cause the Germans to completely run away, and they did not hesitate to stage "one night of madness" and persecute tens of thousands of people?

In 1938, three gunshots rang out in France, why did Germany stage a "night of madness"

In 1938, near the German Embassy in Paris, von Rattle, secretary of the German Embassy, was attacked in a surprise attack. "Bang, bang, bang", three consecutive bullets hit von Rattle's abdomen, after which the perpetrator fled the scene of the shooting. Two days later, von Rattle died of his wounds.

The suspects who attacked von Rattle were also arrested. As for why von Rattle was shot, the Jew living in France told the police that he had repeatedly turned to von Rattle for help from the German Embassy to help his relatives in Germany to take refuge in France, and that his sister and family were being humiliated in Germany, but they were all rejected by von Rattle, so he had to choose "revenge" and make the crazy German government pay the price.

In 1938, three gunshots rang out in France, why did Germany stage a "night of madness"

Logically, the shooting should have come to an end at this point, after all, the perpetrator has been arrested. However, the Germans were obviously unwilling to give up, but took the opportunity to attack and staged a "crazy night" in Germany, allowing tens of thousands of people to be persecuted overnight.

If you want to understand the real reason for the incident, you have to go back to that time. After 1920, Jews had fully integrated into German society and became part of Germany. The rise to power of the Nazi government put an end to the peaceful life of the Jews.

In 1938, three gunshots rang out in France, why did Germany stage a "night of madness"

Nazi Germany at that time regarded the Jews as "the enemy of the whole world", and at the same time called the Jews the "saboteurs" of the national order, as the "biggest stumbling block" to the German revival. Based on this propaganda, Nazi Germany eventually introduced a series of measures to restrict Jews.

The first is that Germans cannot enter Jewish shops to buy any goods, Jews cannot serve as German civil servants and doctors, and Jews cannot enter any public places, including Germans. At this request, the Jews were already living at the bottom of Germany.

In 1938, three gunshots rang out in France, why did Germany stage a "night of madness"

By 1935, the Jews had suffered an unprecedented blow. Germany introduced the latest law that deprived Jews of their "right to vote" and "be elected" in Germany, while strictly prohibiting Jews from using the German flag and other things that symbolize Germany. Such a law fundamentally rejected the fact that Jews were legitimate citizens of Germany.

Since then, Germany has become more and more crazy and began to expel a large number of Jews in Germany. In 1938, 17,000 sleeping Jews were brutally woken up by German Nazi forces demanding that they leave Germany and enter Poland. It was also during this expulsion that von Rattle was shot dead by a Jew in Paris, France.

In 1938, three gunshots rang out in France, why did Germany stage a "night of madness"

The death of von Rattle also gave Nazi Germany a reason to target the Jews. The German Fuehrer instructed his minions to "let go and make the Jews pay the price." Subsequently, this will of racial persecution was transmitted to the ears of the German Youth League.

That night, the German Youth League staged "A Night of Madness" in Germany. Jewish houses and Jewish churches became the target of German Nazis' smashing and burning. At the same time, more than 30,000 Jews were arrested overnight and imprisoned in concentration camps that had been prepared for a long time. Although most were eventually released by germany, about 3,000 Jews still died in concentration camps. And this one-night madness also made Germany officially embark on the road of persecuting Jews by force.

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