Mass arrests after Kristallnacht

This put pressure on the deportees and their relatives in order to speed up the only seemingly voluntary emigration from their homeland and to "Aryanize" Jewish assets.[7] In the early morning hours of 10 November, Reinhard Heydrich forwarded an order by Heinrich Himmler to all state police headquarters and SD top sections.While the deployment of police officers in large cities was mostly formally correct and without additional humiliation or maltreatment, elsewhere insults, kicks and blows were not uncommon.In most cases the Jews taken into "protective custody" were held captive for the first two to three days in police stations, prisons, gyms or schools and from there transferred to concentration camps.The historian Wolfgang Benz recorded that up to 10,000 Jews remained in prisons or local collection points because the accommodation available in concentration camps was insufficient.[13] A humiliating admission procedure with hours of standing for roll calls, undressing, hair cutting and putting on the prisoners' clothes had a shocking effect on the victims and is widely described in eyewitness accounts.Reports cite physical overexertion, septic illnesses, pneumonia, lack of prescribed medication and diet as the main causes of death.Speechlessness, sleep disturbances, fear and shame were often the reaction to the raw assaults experienced and the experience of absolute powerlessness and lawlessness.
Jews rounded up in Stadthagen by SA and police, 10 November
Mass arrest of Jews in Baden-Baden
SS propaganda photograph of disabled Jews at Buchenwald , arrested after Kristallnacht
Arrival of Jewish refugee children, port of London, February 1939
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