After Kristallnacht, no German citizen could say they did not know what would happen to the Jews.

On the night/morning of November 9-10th, 1938, a massive uprising known as a pogrom occurred. Directed at Jews, it was the first of its kind in which the police and other members of authority did nothing to stop, maintaining a passive role. Kristallnacht was the supposed beginning of the end for German Jews - it highlighted the first nationwide action against the religious group, and was the start of the government endorsed campaign of …

…press and the population of Germany had been censored by the Nazis, and this restricted any knowledge of the Nazis' true plans for the solution of the Jewish problem to be made public. Even though it was clear that the days of the German Jew were numbered, shortly after Kristallnacht it would have been impossible to predict their true plight, but as time grew on, and the world reacted, it grew more and more clear.