Buch was also responsible for the " legalization " of Party members ' excesses during the so-called '' Kristallnacht '' ( 9 November 1938 ) . He declared after his investigation that the " small Party comrades " who were responsible for more than a hundred Jews ' deaths had only been following orders . However , he found no need to question those who had given these orders , such was his deep-seated Anti-Semitism , and he publicly brought the law for Jews into question . In his opinion , Jews were literally " not humans "
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Walter Buch