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Station 2: Responses to KristallnachtImage Analysis

Directions: Take a few moments to closely observe the image below. Then answer the prompts that follow.1

1 Adapted from Library of Congress’s “Analyzing Photographs & Prints” protocol.

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1. OBSERVE: What do you notice first about this image? What words do you see? What other details do you notice?

2. REFLECT: Why do you think this image was made? What’s happening in the image? When do you think it was made?

3. QUESTION: What do you wonder about: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

4. The caption accompanying this photograph reads: “Americans participate in an anti-Nazi protest in New York after learning of the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany, November 1938.” How does the caption change your answer to question 2? What questions remain for you about this photograph?

Station 2: Responses to Kristallnacht (continued)

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Newspaper Headlines after Kristallnacht

Directions: Read the headlines below, and then answer questions 1 and 2.

Duluth News-Tribune, November 11, 1938

San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 1938

Los Angeles Examiner, November 23, 1938

Endicott Daily Bulletin, November 12, 1938

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1. Based on these headlines, what can you infer about how much Americans knew about the threat of Nazism in the aftermath of Kristallnacht?

2. Examine the use of words in the headlines. What do they reveal about how American newspapers presented news of the attacks?

Station 2: Responses to Kristallnacht (continued)