Kristallnacht

Note the similarity between the earlier LICA (International League Against Antisemitism, later LICRA, adding the word 'Racism') logo on the left, and the much later Anti-Fascist Action logo on the right -- which is an outgrowth of the former. By the way, the LICRA is mainly financed by state subsidies. It receives around 500,000 euros every year from the French government.

FLASHPOINT Kristallnacht 1938: Instigators, Victims and Beneficiaries by Ingrid Weckert

Translated by Mr. Carl Hottelet from the original German

English translation Copyright 1991 by Institute for Historical Review in arrangement with Grabert Verlag, Tübingen, Germany

By Carolyn Yeager

Part Two

The actual March 9, 1938 reinactment of the 1923 original National Socialist march to the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, the day that ended with the fateful "Night of the broken glass." Adolf Hitler is center front, with Goering on his right. (Getty images)

FLASHPOINT Kristallnacht 1938: Instigators, Victims and Beneficiaries by Ingrid Weckert

Translated by Mr. Carl Hottelet from the original German

English translation Copyright 1991 by Institute for Historical Review in arrangement with Grabert Verlag, Tübingen, Germany

By Carolyn Yeager

Part Four

Psychological Warfare Division personnel looking over their work output and appearing quite happy with it. In fact, a certain lack of seriousness, even hilarity, pervaded these well-financed efforts, which we can more easily recognize today for what they are.

FLASHPOINT Kristallnacht 1938: Instigators, Victims and Beneficiaries by Ingrid Weckert

Translated by Mr. Carl Hottelet from the original German

English translation Copyright 1991 by Institute for Historical Review in arrangement with Grabert Verlag, Tübingen, Germany

By Carolyn Yeager

Part Six

Another huge crowd at the Theater Square on Nov. 9, 2015, a special date in Germany for a variety of reasons.

On the anniversary of “Kristallnacht”, for which Pegida naturally got criticized by the usual suspects for insensitivity in going ahead with its regular Monday night stroll when all Germans should be wearing sackcloth and feeling “deeply ashamed” … yes, on this evening of November 9th, Tatjana Festerling decided to speak about a German future without German guilt.

“Are you ready to let go? she asked the cheering crowd that packed the Theater Square. “Then I declare here and now, on November 9, 2015 – 70 years after the war – the German guilt complex for the 12-year Nazi rule has officially ended.”