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In the midst of the smashed glass of the looted shops, German wit eased the discomfort by referring to the event as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).
The second scene occurs during Kristallnacht , the night of broken glass when the Nazis destroyed most of the synagogues and many of the Jewish-owned stores in Germany: Oskar discovers that the Jew who sells him his tin drums has committed suicide in his store, while storm troopers rampage around his corpse, poking it with puppets and dropping their pants to shit on the floor.
The fact that this "radicalization" is seen to have taken place at many different points of his career--after the suicide of Raubal, after the allegedly "spontaneous" violence of Kristallnacht , after the almost supernatural ease of the first victories on the Western front, after the first defeats in the Soviet invasion--is testimony to its weakness.
Third, Finkelstein deduces from some Germans' disgust at the destruction of Jewish lives and property during Nazi-sponsored pogroms such as Kristallnacht that "Germans overwhelmingly condemned the Nazi anti-Semitic atrocities."
If The Tin Drum has a negative take on Nazism, it is expressed obliquely, through explosive bursts of irreverent language, and by dint of the fact that, in 1959, Grass talks about things such as Kristallnacht --something few other German writers did at the time, at least not so boldly.