Two special programs, one in English and one in German, marking the third anniversary of the November, 1938, pogroms against Jews in Germany, were broadcast today over the British Broadcasting Company’s “European Service.”
“The Man in the Street,” which is a pseudonym for a BBC speaker who is supposed to represent average public opinion, declared that the November pogroms were “Hitler’s first really ambitious achievement and provided the first large-scale exhibition of the ‘new order’ at work.” Carlton Greene, former Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph stated that nothing he had ever seen in Europe had shocked him so much as the Berlin pogroms of 1938. The November pogroms in Germany were launched under the pretext that they were reprisals for the assassination of Ernst Von Rath, third secretary of the German legation in Paris, by the Polish-Jewish youth Herschl Grynszpan.
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