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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477371" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Oak Wood Piano on Kristallnacht</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The SS guard hit Zindel Grynszpan on the head and he fell<br>Into a ditch. Father, he heard the voice of his son, you must<br>Go on. Zindel took the hand of his son and climbed out of<br>The trench. With his wife, a son and daughter on his side <br>They continued the march. But the SS guards did not stop <br>The savage whipping of the deportees. Blood was flowing <br>On all sides.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Grynszpan family were Polish Jews from Hanover.<br>When the Nazis came to power they became outcasts.<br>In October 1938 they were expelled from Germany<br>And deported to Poland in a group of 12,000 Jews.<br>They were taken by train to the frontier town Neubenschen<br>And from there on foot to the German-Polish border. <br>When they reached the border heavy rain started to fall. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Nazis confiscated their money. They had no food to eat. <br>Polish officers arrived and began to inspect their papers. <br>They admitted the refugees with Polish passports, <br>Housing them in military stables. Old, sick and children<br>Were herded together in most inhuman conditions. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One of the first things that Zindel did in Poland was to send<br>A postcard to his seventeen year old son Hirsch in Paris.<br>When Hirsch Grynszpan read the family’s tribulations <br>He became furious. His heart was filled with rage and hatred<br>And he decided to avenge their sufferings. On the morning <br>Of November 7, Hirsch entered a gunsmith’s shop on rue<br>Faubourg Saint-Martin and purchased a 6.35 calibre pistol <br>With a box of 25 bullets, for 235 Francs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he took a ride on the Metro to the Solferino stop<br>And walked to the German Embassy at 78 rue de Lille.<br>Hirsch told the receptionist that he has some documents with him.<br>He was received by Ernst vom Rath, the third secretary.<br>When the German diplomat closed the door Hirsch pulled out<br>The gun. “You are a filthy Kraut”, he said, “and in the name of<br>12,000 persecuted Jews here is the document”. He fired five<br>Bullets from point blank range at vom Rath. The diplomat died<br>Two days later of his wounds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The assassination came as a godsend thing for the Nazis.<br>Hitler denounced it as part of a global Jewish conspiracy<br>Against Germany. It became a pretext for the well-orchestrated<br>Pogrom of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. <br>During the night of November 9-10,1938, in every place<br>Throughout the Third Reich, Storm Troops attacked Jews<br>And Jewish institutions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hitler’s henchmen burnt down or destroyed in Germany<br>Nearly two hundred synagogues. They burst into Jewish houses, <br>Broke the glass of Jewish businesses and beat up Jews wherever<br>They found them. About ninety people were murdered <br>And thousands of others were wounded in the street violence. <br>The Nazis also arrested thirty thousand Jews and sent them<br>To concentration camps in Buchenwald, Dachau, <br>And Sachsenhausen. And on top of all this, the Reich<br>Cynically imposed a billion mark penalty <br>On the Jewish Community to pay for the damages.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Berlin hundreds of truncheon swinging storm troops<br>Led the mob in smashing up the glass plate windows <br>Of Jewish stores. In the Jewish neighbourhoods of German <br>Cities the Nazis lit bonfires. They threw on them to burn <br>Torah scrolls, prayer books and whole libraries. Thousands<br>Of Germans joined the Storm Troops in the atrocities.<br>But many resented the pogrom. People watched in horror<br>The roundup; they cried silently behind their curtains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a third floor balcony in Leipzig<br>Storm Troops shattered a balustrade and pushed <br>An upright oak wood piano over the edge. It plunged like<br>A black wingless dragon and fell helplessly to the street.<br>It crashed on the pavement with a shocking clamour.<br>Its wooden casing had split. The strings stripped bare<br>Stood in the middle of the wreckage as an orphan harp<br>Screaming with a heartbreaking outcry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q>
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