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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.
Kept home from school, he becomes an unblinking observer of the world around him--his mother's adultery, the rise of Nazism, Kristallnacht , the invasion of Poland, the ravages of war, and after the war, the "economic miracle."
"The overwhelming majority approved social segregation and economic destruction of the Jews" on the eve of Kristallnacht in 1938 "but not the outbursts of brute force.
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.
It is particularly annoying to read this on the anniversary of Kristallnacht .