The events of November 9/10, 1938. Did Hitler originate, endorse, approve, or actuall strenuously disapprove of, Goebbels’s orders igniting an anti-Jewish pogrom? Until this dossier is complete, download and read the corresponding chapter of the draft Document Book (pdf) .

• [The new conformist version] Historian says Grynszpan killed Vom Rath, “his Nazi lover”
• Hitler ‘worried by extremist views of Goebbels’, claimed British official
• 1:20 a.m. November 10, 1938: Heydrich order is circulated to police endorsing outrages
• Nicolaus von Below (Hitler’s Luftwaffe adjutant) 1947 manuscript memoirs, extract
• Nicolaus von Below interview by David Irving, May 18, 1968
• Julius Schaub (Hitler’s personal friend and adjutant) 1950 manuscript memoirs, extract
• Fritz Wiedemann (Hitler’s outgoing — dismissed — personal adjutant) Feb 1939 handwritten notes on the episode (Library of Congress: Wiedemann Papers)
• 2:56 a.m. Rudolf Hess’s office orders urgent halt to all further arson “on orders from highest level”
• 3:45 a.m. Heydrich order is circulated, forbidding all arson attacks
• Morning, November 10, 1938, after again seeing Hitler Goebbels issued nationwide edict ordering immediate stop

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