After World I, the German economy was in shambles and the nation was dejected. Hitler manipulated this state of affairs to legally rise to power and systematically strip German Jews of their rights. This slow increase in oppression culminated on Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, the night that the Nazi Party realized it could get away with genocide.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:31 Boiling Frog Syndrome
01:36 How did the Holocaust start?
02:00 Aftermath of WW1
02:44 The Jewish scapegoat
03:19 Nazi rise to power
05:28 Legalizing Jewish discrimination
07:27 The death of Paul von Hindenburg
08:06 Herschel Grynzpan
09:20 Kristallnacht / the Night of Broken Glass
09:43 International reaction
10:29 When the Nazis realized they could get away with genocide

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