In Memory of Kristallnacht

After the war, the full enormity of Nazi genocide became clear. At the same time, Germans and Allies alike claimed "they knew nothing" of the horrors that had been ongoing for nearly 5 years. Our view of the military and diplomatic history of World War II has been shaped by the assumption that there was no awareness of ongoing genocide, that it had been kept as "a terrible secret." The latest research gives us another picture altogether. This lecture offers incontrovertible evidence of exactly who knew what, and when and the moral implications of this new information.