Night Of Broken Glass: The Destruction Of Nazi Culture

Second of all, in the Nazi culture, they achieve their goals by violence and force. The aftereffect of these actions comes with the destruction, hence, the Nazi culture taints the setting and the landscape with violence and death. Their negative acts and influence provoke pain through the Jewish community as they experience loss. For example, on November 9th, 1938, Nazi leaders conducted a progrom in spite of the Jews, “In two days […] over 7,000 businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by” (“The ‘Night of Broken Glass’”). Additionally, gallows and executions were held at concentration camps, the ghettos and even in public streets. That being said, the anti-Semitism caused
They frequently cause mass destructions to their country and land, to the point that it begins to bleed into their landscape and their ordinary lives. Through such a short time period, she becomes victim to brutality of her race and her residence that she no longer flinches at the sight of death; violence remains in her mind as a norm. Both physically and mentally, Minka suffers from a great amount of anguish, as death and violence implants itself in her mind. Her suffering can be felt through the thousands of homes destroyed by the Nazi soldiers. In the end, she is incapable of finding peace as her people “were a beaten, gray stream of workers who did not want to remember [their] past and did not think [they] had a future”. The influence of the Nazi culture left their beautiful homes in ruins as “there was no laughter, no hopscotch remaining. No hair ribbons or giggles. No color or beauty left behind” (Picoult 264). Within such a short time span, Minka and her family experiences more horrors than anyone could possibly imagine in a