The Second World War arose from the attempt to destroy Germany . Hoggan argued that Britain had been guilty of aggression and in the form of the " Hunger blockade " , genocide against the German people in World War I . In World War II , Hoggan claimed that Britain was even guilty of aggression , and in the form of " area bombing " and the blockade , even more guilty of genocide against the German people . Moreover , Hoggan accused the Polish government of engaging in what he called hideous persecution of its German minority , and claimed that the Polish government 's policies towards the ethnic German minority were far worse than the Nazi regime 's policies towards the Jewish minority . Moreover , Hoggan charged that all of the German anti-Semitic laws were forced on the Germans by anti-Semitism in Poland as in Hoggan 's opinion German anti-Semitic laws were the only thing that stopped the entire Jewish population of Poland from immigrating to the '' Reich '' . Hoggan justified the huge one billion '' Reich '' - mark fine imposed on the entire Jewish community in Germany after the 1938 '' Kristallnacht '' pogrom as a reasonable measure to prevent what he called " Jewish profiteering " at the expense of German insurance companies and alleged that no Jews were killed in the '' Kristallnacht '' ( in fact , 91 German Jews were killed in the '' Kristallnacht '' ) . A particular area of controversy centered around Hoggan ’s claim that the situation of German Jewry before World War II was extremely favorable to the Jewish community in Germany , and that none of the various antisemitic laws and measures of the Nazis had any deleterious effects on German Jews
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
David L. Hoggan