While in Berlin , Geist cultivated a number of high-level contacts within the Nazi party , including personal contacts with Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich . Geist notified his superiors on several occasions of the conditions for Jews in Germany . Following Kristallnacht , he warned the Assistant Secretary of State George S. Messersmith in a private letter in late 1938 that Jews in Germany were being " condemned to death " . The next year , in May 1939 , he repeated his warning , saying that the Jews of Germany would be doomed if aggressive action was not taken to rescue them
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Raymond H. Geist