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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
As the author, I am solely responsible for this work
but it might never have been published had it not been for
the generous efforts of scores of fellow researchers,
reporters, librarians and friends who gathered source
material, constructively criticized early drafts of the
manuscript and proofread my atrocious spelling. I appreciate
your help and trust that you will understand that the
omission of your names from this acknowledgement is not
intended to downgrade your valuable contributions only to
spare you the pain of any possible reprisal from those
people who would suppress the truth about the Jonestown
experiment and the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan.
1988
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PROLOGUE
The Kristallnacht or Crystal Night was the name the
Nazis gave to the evening of November 9, 1938; the fifteenth
anniversary of Adolf Hitler's first attempt to overthrow the
German government. As in years past, the Nazi Party bosses
gathered to celebrate; among them was Heinrich Himmler
Reichsfurer of the SS, who had planned an event to mark the
anniversary. Following the beer hall celebrations, Himmler's
SS set out to assault the Jewish citizenry. Before the
evening was over, 119 synagogues were set on fire, 7,500
Jewish shops were looted or destroyed, 171 Jewish homes were
burned, and 20,000 Jews were arrested and sent to newlyconstructed labor camps. According to Nazi records, 36 Jews
were murdered that evening. Through-out Germany, Himmler's
troops inflicted over 25 million marks worth of damage -- 5
million in broken glass alone, hence the name, the Crystal
Night. In the weeks that followed, German Jews were not only
denied insurance claims, but were totally ousted from the
economy and fined one billion marks "for their abominable
crimes."
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Where?, but the critical answers to How? and Why? are either
misinterpreted, misrepresented or, more commonly, outright
omitted. Historic events, like Jonestown, are never
understood as they occur or even within a few years after
they occur. It takes time to verify and collate the various
eyewitness accounts into a comprehensive overview and to
place that overview in
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