An Israeli reporter has found a cache of artifacts looted from Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues from the Krystallnacht pogrom.
An Israeli investigative reporter has discovered a large amount of personal and ceremonial artifacts which were looted from Jews during Kristallnacht in 1938.
The items have recently been unearthed by Yaron Svoray at a waste site the size of four soccer fields in Brandenburg, located north of Berlin.
Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass” or the “Crystal Night pogroms,” saw the destruction of more than 200 synagogues and the ransacking of tens of thousands of Jewish businesses and homes. During the Nazi pogrom 92 Jews were murdered and 25,000–30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps.
The waste site is located in close proximity to the former home of Hermann Goering, who commanded the German air force (Luftwaffe) during World War II.
The Germans are proving that they haven’t exactly remembered the right lessons from that night.
The search for additional artifacts at the site is ongoing under the constant watch of bodyguards, this after Svoray complained of threats made on his life.
And the investigation had to be kept under wraps—because the market for Nazi memorabilia is extremely profitable.
Svoray refrained from making his findings public for fear that the site would attract people looking to get their hands on Nazi treasures.
“There are no real treasures here, but there is still a danger that the site will turn into a circus of auctions organized by skinheads,” he said, “the site is drawing more and more interest; people are starting to dig.”
Even better, Germans are going to erect a museum near the spot. For Herman Goerring, the manufacturer of one of the Nazis that spread “The Big Lie,” which not only helped murder Jews back in the 30s and 40s, but which was co-opted by the Arabs and Muslims and is used today (cf: Mohammed al-Dura, Jews trying to destroy al-Aqsa, etc.).
The journalist also reported of a plan to erect a hunting museum in Goerring’s honor at the site. He said that so far his repeated efforts to scuttle the plan have failed.
It’s good to know that Germans have their priorities straight. Robbing Jewish artifacts and destroying them in search of Nazi memorabilia? No problem. Erecting a museum to one of the architects of the Final Solution? Absolutely. Helping Jews recover their heritage? Piss off.
I would like to know who is planning to build that museum and who is paying for it.
Actually, Meryl, the German propagandist associated with the “big lie” theory was Joseph Goebbels, not that Herman Goering was above big lies himself.
Nice little irony, though, that an Israeli would come upon this cache of stuff stolen by the Nazis. I wonder if it would have occurred to them on Kristallnacht that they would be gone and there would be a Jewish state.
Near the former home of Goering, or the SITE of his former home. Are they saying they didn’t raze the place? Who the heck would have the temerity to live there now, or to preserve the site?
Never have warmed to Germany. Stuff like this is the reason why.
Remember some years back when Nazi-era mass grave was discovered near a German locality…and then it turned out that the locals had been aware of it for a few years.
They didn’t report it because they didn’t think it was “that important”.