Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass Nov. 9-10, 1938: Nazi Anti-Jewish Pogroms, Germany, Territories, 85 Yrs Ago [View all]

(USHMM). Kristallnacht. A Nationwide Pogrom. Kristallnacht, literally, "Night of Crystal," is often referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass." The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938. This wave of violence took place throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops.

Nazi officials disguised the organized nature of the pogroms. They described the actions as justifiable and spontaneous responses of the German population to the assassination of a German diplomatic official, Ernst vom Rath, in Paris. This unprecedented violence against the Reich’s Jews generated international outrage...
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