1936, Max and his father, Jakob, rides a train to meet with his old colleague Major Jurgen Scharf, whom Jakob saved before. He wants to ask him to return the favor and to give him another job within the government.
Evening comes, Jakob finally meets Scharf as he was getting on his way home. Shortly, German police have approached them looking for the Jew that is "making trouble in his office" the whole day. As Jakob tries to go away, a German soldier stops him and beats him down. Max, trying to go to his father, is thrown down by Scharf, nearly knocking him unconscious. Jakob is taken in Scharf's office while Max lay sprawled on the sidewalk.
Later, Jakob is thrown out of the building and Scharf declares that he could have been killed - and now, they are even. Jakob and Max rides a train back home.
As the train passes by the Marzahn Detention Camp, it is reavealed that Magda and the other gypsies are being held there.
1938, Nuremberg. Max gets in trouble with some of his former classmates and is beaten badly for it. Back home, the Eisendhardts once again discuss that they should go immediately - a German attache in Paris is shot by a Jew. That night, thanks to Max spotting the soldiers outside, they barely escaped as Nazis started burning down the Jewish homes in the city...
November 7, 1938: Merschel Grynszpan, a teenager whose relatives were among the 15,000 Polish Jews deported from Germany but refused entry to Poland, assasinates the German attache Ernst vom Rath in Paris.
November 9-10, 1938, Nuremberg: Across Germany and Austria, Nazis unleash attacks on Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. At least 91 Jews are killed and 30,000 Jewish men are arrested and sent to concentration camps. Approximately 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses are smashed and looted. Within days, the Nazis begin passing legislation to enforce "Aryanization" of Jewish businesses. Jews throughout Germany are forced to sell their businesses to non-Jews, usually at enormous losses.
November 12, 1938: The Nazis announce a one-billion-mark fine to be levied against the Jews to pay for Kristallnacht.
1939, Poland, the Eisendhardts arrive in Poland. They are going to stay with their realtive Cecilia's barn for the time-being. Suddenly, the Polish cavalry dashed down the street on their way to the border. With their superior armored tanks and firepower, the Nazi invasion of Poland starts...
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