Kristallnacht in Baden-Baden, Germany Featured here is the story
of Kristallnacht in one town. The stories and photographs in
this section are painful witnesses to the horror inflicted
suddenly on the Jews beginning early in the morning in Baden-
Baden, Germany, on November 9, 1938. The nightmare continued all
day as the Jews in this town were rounded up, and their
synagogue and homes pillaged and burnt. At 7a.m. on November 10,
1938, a policeman appeared at the home of Artur Flehinger, a
former teacher in the gymnasia of Baden-Baden, and ordered
Flehinger to accompany him to the police station. The streets
were empty that morning, except for other Jews who also had been
told to report early to the police station. When Flehinger
arrived at the station, there were 50 Jewish men there who had
been rounded up by the SS. The arrest of these local Jewish men
signaled the beginning of Kristallnacht in Baden-Baden. In total
80 Jewish men were arrested that morning. The SS ordered them to
go outside to the courtyard a