Almost certainly there was a connection: Jews were, after all, considered to be the wire-pullers behind the international conspiracy against Germany, and Jews were immediately accessible within Germany as defenceless targets for vengeance. It is surely not coincidence that the first burning of a synagogue took place in Munich, spiritual headquarters of the regime, on 9 June, thus little more than a fortnight after the Czech rebuff; it was followed by the arrest of over 2000 Jews throughout the Reich, who were thrown into concentration camps.
