In the light of the rapidly deteriorating political situation , the Jewish leadership in the various district states ( Länder ) realized that it was essential to create a united central organization to represent German Jewry vis-à-vis the regime . Similarly , Kulka showed that the successor to the National Representation , namely the National Association of Jews in Germany , was not established in 1939 after the Kristallnacht pogrom , solely at the order of the Nazi regime . In fact , it emerged under this name , and within a new central framework as the national organization of all the Jews in Germany , in the course of a lengthy internal process in 1938
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Otto Dov Kulka