A transnational survey reveals that anti-Semitism is alive in Europe reveals that antisemitism on the continent remains in force and that the hatred of Jews is growing. The survey was conducted between September and October 2012 in Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Sweden and the UK, countries where 90% of the Jewish population of Europe. According to the agency, 66% of respondents believed that anti-Semitism remains a major problem and 76% said that the hatred of Jews had increased in the last five years. The survey indicates that the most anti-Semitic country in Europe is France, where 73% of respondents admitted that the Arab-Israeli conflict has influenced anti-Jewish sentiment, while in Germany, the percentage drops to 23%. I thought that anti-Semitism had died in Auschwitz, said Serge Cwajgenbaum, secretary general of the European Jewish Congress, to discuss the results of the survey. Speaking in full 2013 on cases of anti-Semitism in cities like London, Paris or Budapest, makes me fear for the future of Europe. The survey, which was released in Vienna, coincides with the celebrations that start on Saturday in Germany to mark the beginning of the first pogrom against the Jewish community under the Nazi dictatorship in the night from 9 to November 10, 1938 and marked a turning point in the anti-Semitic policies born in the country immediately after Hitler came to power in 1933. That night, thousands of fanatical Nazis took to the streets to burn synagogues, destroying shops and attacking their Jewish owners. The attack on the night of broken glass, referring to the remains of windows and cabinets that covered the streets, marked the beginning of the extermination of the Jews in Europe. According to historical records, more than 100 Jews were killed that night and another 30,000 were sent in the days after the concentration camps of Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald. The dictatorship justified the attacks as a spontaneous outburst of popular violence to the murder of a German diplomat in Paris, who died on November 9 because of the shooting of Herschel Grünspan, a Polish Jew 17. When news of the murder reached Berlin, Goebbels visited Hitler at the Chancellery to design a plan of action. The conversation appears in your journal. We expose the matter to the Führer. He decides to allow demonstrations and police to withdraw. The Jews must feel popular anger, wrote the Minister of Propaganda. The anniversary will be remembered with official acts with an exhibition of the reports sent diplomats accredited in Germany in the Old Synagogue in Berlin. The diplomatic dispatches inform their governments about the rash of sadistic cruelty of the regime against the Jews, wrote the U.S. consul general in Frankfurt, Robert Townsend Samllbones. The British described the pogrom as a barbarism of the Middle Ages, while the French compared with the Turkish genocide against the Armenians. Spain declined to submit documentation, according to the curator, Christian Dirks, because the building that contains the files is undergoing renovations. No power broke with Berlin or sanctions applied. Washington recalled its ambassador, but most countries closed their borders to 400,000 German Jews. internacional.elpais/internacional/2013/11/08/actualidad/1383931009_601598.html
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