 Modern analysis of German scholarly sources puts the figure much higher; when deaths from post-arrest maltreatment and subsequent suicides are included, the death toll reaches the hundreds, with Richard J. Evans estimating 638 deaths by suicide.Historians view "Kristallnacht" as a prelude to the Final Solution and the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust.In the 1920s, most German Jews were fully integrated into German society as German citizens.