FilmDokument: Film Documents on the November Pogrom 1938

The November pogrom marks a central turning-point in the anti-Semitic policy of National Socialist Germany. On the night of November 9 to 10, 1938, thousands of Jewish synagogues, businesses and homes were destroyed and at least 91 people murdered in an action initiated by the SA. Despite the ban issued on filming and photographing, several film documents from private sources do exist. Official recordings show the "leveling" of the ruins. All of these documents can also be found in subsequent documentations of the events and have visually shaped the images and conceptions of the pogrom.