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Feb 10, 2023 · On the night of November 9, Nazi leaders ordered members of the Nazi Party’s paramilitaries (the SS, the SA, and the Hitler Youth) to attack Jewish communities. In the hours and days that followed, organized groups of Nazis wreaked havoc on Jewish life in Nazi Germany.
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Article: The "Night of Broken Glass" Article. Article: The...
- Kristallnacht
Hanne Hirsch Liebmann describes the effects of Kristallnacht...
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Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass...
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The euphemistic name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed.
Dec 16, 2009 · Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom (s), was a prolonged series of violent attacks on Jewish people, homes, businesses and synagogues in 1938 Germany.
Kristallnacht, the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms. After Kristallnacht, the Nazi regime made Jewish survival in Germany impossible.
- Michael Berenbaum
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was the Nazi dictatorship’s declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews in November 1938.
Nov 8, 2013 · After ruining their property and their temples in a murderous attack, the Nazis then made their victims pay for all the damage from the “night of broken glass.”
