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Kristallnacht It is also called “the Night of Broken Glass”, and “Novemberpogrome”. Was a pogrom or series of attacks against Jews organized by Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on November 9–10, 1938.

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<ul><li>Jewish homes were ransacked, as shops, towns and villages, as SA and civilians destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets covered in pieces of smashed windows, here the origin of the name &quot;Night of Broken Glass.“ </li></ul><ul><li>Ninety-one Jews were killed, and 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps, where they were tortured for months, with over 1,000 of them dying. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Around 1,668 synagogues were ransacked, and 267 set on fire. In Vienna alone 95 synagogues or houses of prayer were destroyed. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Martin Gilbert writes that no event in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was so widely reported as it was happening, and the accounts from the foreign journalists working in Germany sent shock waves around the world . </li></ul>

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<ul><li>The Times wrote at the time: &quot;No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of blackguardly assaults on defenceless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday.” </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Kristallnacht was followed by further economic and political persecution of Jews, and is viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germany's broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. </li></ul>