Plans were immediately set in place for what would be Kristallnacht or ‘Night of Broken Glass’. What happened was that Nazi members and even just the regular German citizen went out and destroyed over 8,000 Jewish businesses and 200 synagogues, killed 90 Jews, injured hundreds while around 30,000 men were imprisoned in concentration camps.
However, the aftermath could be seen as the worst part because the Jews were blamed for Kristallnacht, so the government was legally allowed to take all the insurance that the Jewish businesses were owed. Also every Jew was expected to pay their share of the 1,000,000 mark fine to compensate for the death of Ernst von Rath.
This action showed how the Nazi’s and Germans felt about the importance of thousands of Jews compared to just one of their people, and that Germany was prepared to hurt the Jews physically and set the Jewish community back economically and physically, just for the stupidity of one man.
Then the Jews’ independence started to be queried, and the idea that Jews should not be allowed to own and control their own trading businesses, this set the Aryan and Jewish communities well apart. Around two weeks later the German government started getting generous with segregation laws and policies, blocking out Jews from places of leisure, education and sporting areas. Also Jews were not allowed driving privileges or homing pigeons.
So in conclusion, the result of Kristallnacht was what started most of the policies on Jews that were set up in the late 1930’s, because the Night of Broken Glass is what encouraged the majority of the country of Germany into Hitler’s racist ideas and that the Jews have no place in Germany because it would apparently result in violence (Hitler could now back this up by using the von Rath shooting as an example).
