Eberstein was the police president of Munich during '' Kristallnacht '' . On 10 November 1938 , at 1:20 a.m. , Heydrich sent out a telegram to various police organizations giving orders for police behavior during the riots . At 2:10 Eberstein sent a telegram to the State Police HQ of Augsburg , Nürnberg , Würzburg , and Neustadt a.d. Weinstraße , the '' Regierungspräsident '' , and the '' Gauleiter '' , with the subject line " Anti-Jewish Measures " . It relayed orders " from the Berlin HQ of the State Police " , saying that " Anti-Jewish demonstrations " would occur , with synagogues and Jewish communal centers as targets , and that the demonstrations were not to be interfered with , except to prevent looting and excesses . The '' Ordnungspolizei '' or Orpo ( uniform order police ) would " ... do nothing to hinder the demonstrations " , but the criminal police and state police would wear plain-clothes . The SS troops could help , but the state police was supposed to maintain control . It went on to state that between 20 and 30,000 Jews would be arrested in Germany . It concluded : " ... Every effort will be made to arrest immediately as many Jews as the jails will hold , primarily healthy male and well-to-do adults of not too advanced age " . A document from Beutel ( probably Lothar Beutel ) , HQ of State Police Munich , six minutes later , stated that " officers of the state and criminal police " would accompany the demonstrators in plain-clothes , allow them to destroy Jewish shops and homes , but to prevent looting , after which the Orpo would secure the destroyed buildings
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Karl von Eberstein