Wagner was co-founder and later leader of the National Socialist German Physicians' Federation (NSDÄB), and from 1933 was a member of the Palatinate Landtag. Gerhard Wagner, the Reich Medical Leader ( Reichsärzteführer). Hitler being driven through Marienplatz whilst on his way to the state funeral of Dr. The Gauleiters were instructed that “the Party should not appear to the outside world as the originator of the demonstrations, but should in reality organise them and carry them out.” After this speech, they rushed to the telephones and issued orders to their subordinates across Germany that they should directly incite and/or encourage the violence.
The report of the Supreme Nazi Party Court, held after the pogrom, stated that Goebbels gave a rousing speech in which he informed the Gauleiters about the situation and of Hitler’s approval of the violence “on his briefing, the Führer has decided” that future demonstrations should not be stopped. That is right.” Hitler left the dinner by 21.00, strangely allowing Goebbels to give the speech that Hitler himself had given for the previous five years. The Jews must for once feel the people’s fury. In his diary entry for that day Goebbels wrote: “I go to the Party reception in the Old Town Hall. Several eyewitnesses reported that Goebbel s and Hitler had an intense discussion together at dinner that night. Hitler and Goebbels discussed these incidents before attending a dinner together here at the Old Town Hall. Already by then several cases of antisemitic violence had already take place in two locations in Germany. It was here that Goebbels gave his infamous speech launching the pogrom after German diplomat Ernst vom Rath succumbed to his wounds that evening at 17.30 in Paris after being shot days earlier. Residential units which meant that 300,000 Munich residents were left Approximately 45% of the city's buildings had been destroyed, including more than 85,000 Talbruck gate tower had been completely destroyed by 1945 at a time when just under 3% of Munich’s buildings remained unscathed from Allied carpetīombing, which had targeted the city centre. The roofless Heilig-Geist-Kirche is on the right of the photo and its spire, without the copper top, is behind the church. It was at the old town hall where, on NovemJoseph Goebbels gave his infamous speech initiating the nationwide Reichskristallnacht Taken from the top of the Neues Rathaus next to the Marienplatz showing the roofless Altes Rathaus looking Here is the view immediately after the war and today When American soldiers from the 42nd Rainbow Division arrived here at the town hall on Marienplatz on the afternoon of April 30, 1945, it marked the end of the Nazi era in the ‘Capital of the Movement’ and the beginning of the confrontation with what Thomas Mann called the city’s “tattered past” which is still reflected in the way the city chooses to isarremember it.