Dr. Walter H. Pehle (born 1941, Düsseldorf, Germany) is a professor of German history, who has studied and written on the subject of Nazism in Germany.
His writings include forceful views on terminology for Kristallnacht, including
- It is clear that the term Crystal Night serves to foster a vicious minimalizing of its memory, a discounting of grave reality: such cynical appellations function to reinterpret manslaughter and murder, arson, robbery, plunder, and massive property damage, transforming these into a glistening event marked by sparkle and gleam. [1]
