Report by: Edwin C. Kemp
U. S. Consul General in Bremen To the Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.
Date: 10 November 1938
Subject: Anti-Jewish Demonstrations in Bremen
I have the honor to report that on the night of November 9th the Jewish synagogue and cemetery chapel in Bremen were burned, and the show windows of all the Jewish shops were smashed to pieces. Large notices written in red and black reading "Revenge for the murder of vom Rath", "Death of international Jewry" and similar phrases were left conspicuously in sight.
During the early hours of the 10th a number of arrests of Jews were made, and about nine o'clock in the morning about fifty Jewish men, some of decrepit age or health, were paraded along the main street under guard of about six S.A. men.
The attitude of the population, the presence of the many written notices which were done by the same hand and must have required some time to prepare are sufficient evidence that the destruction was not the work of a spontaneous mob enthusiasm, as claimed by some official authorities.
Report to the US secretary of state on anti-Jewish actions in Bremen, including attacks on shops, the synagogue, and cemetery, arrests of Jewish men, and indications that the actions were prepared in advance
Authors
Edwin C. Kemp (US consul general in Bremen (1938))
Edwin C. Kemp
American consul
- Born: 1884-08-24
- Occupation: consul
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/315967343
Date: 10 November 1938
Literal Title: Subject: Anti-Jewish Demonstrations in Bremen
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-2603
HLSL Item No.: 451072
Notes:This document was not entered as evidence in the trial. The text in English is followed by one in German.