The policy of anti-Semitism in action: the events of crystal night in the public opinion of the united states (based on the "new york times" materials of 1938)

The article deals with the coverage of events related to the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that took place in Germany on November 9-10, 1938 in the leading American newspaper "The New York Times". Pogroms were motivated by the murder of Ernst von Rath, the employee of the German embassy in Paris, performed on the 7th of November of the same year by the Polish Jew Herschel Grunschpan, and the consequences followed for German Jews. A particular attention is paid to the reaction to these events by American politicians, such as the former US President Herbert Hoover, and the representatives of various social circles, primarily Jewish ones, and more broadly, the influence of the materials published in "The New York Times" on the situation of Jews in Germany with the development of public opinion in the United States of America concerning this issue. The author comes to the conclusion that before the Second World War, the National Socialists did not have the opportunity to ignore the world public opinion completely, and in this regard, they did not dare to turn to the "final solution of the Jewish issue", which turned out in the Holocaust.