Meyer remained a German patriot , and refused like other assimilated Jews to believe that the rise to power of the Nazi party constituted a danger . In Meyer ’s case , he even returned to Germany in 1938 from a journey to the United States with his wife . That same year , however , events caught up with him , especially after the so-called Kristallnacht of 9 – 10 November , during which he spent some hours under arrest . This must certainly have been a great shock for Meyer and his wife . He had taken the precaution of carrying a capsule with poison on him and in a letter to his daughters he asked them to show understanding if he or his wife should decide to commit suicide . By the end of the year Meyer had been forced out of the firm under the so-called ' Arianization ' process , and its management had been reluctantly taken over for the greater part by his son-in-law John Hennig , husband since 1933 of Meyer ’s daughter Kläre , and with her a convert to Catholicism , in Hennig ’s case from Lutheranism
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Felix Meyer (industrialist)