With Nazi Germany already straining its resources for external war in November 1938 , there is no nationwide Kristallnacht involving pogroms and burning of synagogues . Still , discrimination and persecution of Jews becomes ever more intensive and oppressive . Even Jews completely assimilated in the German culture , who thought of themselves as Germans ( and as patriotic Germans ) are driven beyond the pale , not allowed to join the Army even when they want to ( and when they had served with distinction in the previous war ) nor being allowed to use the air raid shelters when Allied bombers start arriving overhead . The conquest of Czechoslovakia , the Netherlands , Belgium and Northern France expose an increasing number of additional Jews to the racist brutality from which German Jews have suffered since 1933 . The Jews have no clear idea how far the Nazis intend to go , but they have many reasons to feel foreboding and start assuming that they could count themselves lucky to be still alive at the war 's end
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
The War That Came Early