Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, took place on November 10, 1938 in
German territory. It was a response of extreme vengeanceone of the hallmarks of Nazismto the
killing of a Nazi, Ernst vom Rath, by a Polish Jew.
During the Kristallnacht,
storm troopers destroyed synagogues and Jewish businesses across Germany and Austria and
arrested about 30,000 Jewish males. Police and firefighters were told specifically not to
interfere with the violence, looting, and arson. Jews were brutalized with nobody to defend
them.
As for this act of terrorism's influence on the start of,
it...
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