Kristallnacht
That Sunday morning newspaper included graphic pictures of the destruction of Jewish homes and stores of Hamburg during Kristallnacht, among which was that of the great Born Platz Synagogue of Rabbi Joseph Carlebach. Rev. Wade and his German born wife recognized that the site where Hamburg's once thriving 30,000 member Jewish community had worshipped was now merely an unmarked university parking lot.
They began a historical investigation and found that the first public organization to join Hitler's ranks was the university teaching staff in Germany; first, the Medical faculty, followed by the Law faculty. Five out of eight university students, they found out, had also openly joined the Nazi party.
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