Correspondent in Germany
Here, at Kurfürstendamm 24, West Berlin's main shopping street, the Lindner Hotel is now located: the place was once occupied by a textile shop owned by John Bush, who is Jewish. Further on, at Winterfeldstrasse 44, Samuel Hiesiger's jewellery shop has been replaced by an organic butcher's shop. On the night of November 8-9, 1938, under Hitler's orders and Goebbels' control, these Jewish businesses were destroyed or vandalized by hordes of Nazi supporters.
Gathered in the Assault Platoons (SA) and the Hitler Youth, the thugs burned synagogues and brutalized Jews, marking the beginnings of the Holocaust. According to the German History Museum, 1400,7000 places of worship were damaged or destroyed, 1300,<> businesses ransacked and <>,<> Jews murdered in the process. Eighty-five years later, at the call of the German multi-denominational churches, a thousand people marched in silence...
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