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Source A: A report by an American diplomat in German.
Looting of cash, silver, jewellery and other easily sold items is common. The main streets of the city were a litter of shattered plate glass. According to reliable testimony, the destruction was executed by SS men and Stormtroopers not in uniform. Each group was provided with hammers, axes, crowbars and incendiary bombs. Three synagogues were fired. No attempts were made to quench the fires. The fire brigade only sprayed water on the adjoining buildings. Jewish males aged between 16 and 60 were arrested and transported to concentration camps. All of the local crowds observing were obviously benumbed over the unprecedented fury of Nazi acts.
I feel the urge to present to you a true report of the recent riots, plundering and destruction of Jewish businesses, dwellings and burnings of synagogues. The German people have nothing whatever to do with these riots and burnings. Whilst the ‘angry and excited folk’, as the newspapers so well expressed it, still slept, the police supplied all available young and newly-enlisted SA men, strengthened by a mob of riff-raff, with axes, housebreaking tools and ladders at the police headquarters. A list of the names and addresses of all Jewish shops and flats was provided and the mob proceeded to their work under the leadership of SA men. The police had strict orders to remain neutral.
