{"id":1112,"date":"2005-05-12T09:28:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/05\/imperceptible_lines_of_broken\/"},"modified":"2005-05-12T09:28:34","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T16:28:34","slug":"imperceptible_lines_of_broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/05\/imperceptible_lines_of_broken.html","title":{"rendered":"IMPERCEPTIBLE LINES OF BROKEN GLASS"},"content":{"rendered":"

City Comforts Blog<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> has picked
\nup on Bill Osborne’s commentary<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
\nabout “the delicate, almost imperceptible line that separates good and evil, life and death, guilt and
\ninnocence.” Meanwhile, Osborne offers a reminder that Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>,
\nNovember 9, 1938, was almost a year before the start of World War II — so that no one had any
\nillusions about the abuses going on in Germany — and yet nothing was done.<\/P>
\n

Attacks against Jews<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> were not
\nlimited to a notoriously anti-Semitic city such as Munich. On that night and the next all across the
\ncountry: <\/P>
\n

“<\/A>96 Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, more than
\n1,000 synagogues were burned (and possibly as many as 2,000), [see map], almost 7,500 Jewish
\nbusinesses were destroyed, cemeteries and schools were vandalized, and 30,000 Jews were
\narrested and sent to concentration camps.”<\/P>
\n

<\/P>
\n

Within days, laws were passed to “Aryanize” the economy, and it wasn’t long before:<\/P>
\n


\n

+<\/STRONG> Jews were required to turn over all precious
\nmetals to the government.
+<\/STRONG> Pensions for Jews dismissed from
\ncivil service jobs were arbitrarily reduced.
+<\/STRONG> Jewish-owned bonds,
\nstocks, jewelry and art works can be willed only to the German
\nstate.
+<\/STRONG> Jews were physically segregated within German
\ntowns.
+<\/STRONG> A ban on the Jewish ownership of carrier
\npigeons.
+<\/STRONG> The suspension of Jewish drivers
\nlicenses.
+<\/STRONG> The confiscation of Jewish-owned
\nradios.
+<\/STRONG> A curfew to keep Jews off the streets between 9:00 p.m.
\nand 5:00 a.m. in the summer and 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. in the
\nwinter.
+<\/STRONG> Laws protecting tenants were made non-applicable to
\nJewish tenants.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

<\/P>As Osborne points out, the progroms such as Kristallnacht and these utterly extreme
\nlaws were not imperceptible lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City Comforts Blog has picked up on Bill Osborne’s commentary about “the delicate, almost imperceptible line that separates good and evil, life and death, guilt and innocence.” Meanwhile, Osborne offers a reminder that Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, November 9, 1938, was almost a year before the start of World War II — so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-hW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}