CONFIDENTIAL TELEGRAM RECEIVED -------------- GRAY
FROM Berlin
Dated November 10, 1938
o . f c,, , Rec'd 10:35 a. m.
Secretary of State,
Washington .
605, November 10, 2 p. m.
My 600, November 8, 4 p. m. and 603, November 9, 5 p. m.
In the early hours of this morning systematic breaking of Jewish owned shop windows throughout the Reich and the burning of the principal synagogues in Berlin was carried out.
WILSON
WWC USB
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Telegram to the US secretary of state, on the attacks on Jewish shops in Germany and the burning of synagogues in Berlin (Kristallnacht)
Authors
Hugh R. Wilson (US ambassador in Berlin (1938))
Hugh R. Wilson
diplomat (1885-1946)
- Born: 1885-01-29 (Evanston)
- Died: 1946-12-29 (Bennington)
- Country of citizenship: United States of America
- Occupation: diplomat
- Position held: ambassador
- Educated at: Yale University
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/42738821
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000108923203
Date: 10 November 1938
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2602
HLSL Item No.: 451071
Notes:This document was not entered as evidence in the trial. The text in English is followed by one in German.