Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed on Hitler's orders.
91 Jews were killed30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration campsMore than 1500 synagogues were ransacked267 synagogues were set on fireSledgehammers were used to destroy buildings and glass was everywhere in the streets
There weren't any Jewish towns and it was stormtroopers not soldiers who did it.It was called Kristallnacht which literally means "Crystal Night" or "Glass Night."Read more at the link below.
The kristallnact aka Night of the Broken glass in 1938 was a pogrom series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9-10 November 1938, carried out by SA Stormtroopers and civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening. The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues.
from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website:Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom-broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses plundered and destroyed during the violence.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 November 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.
Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed on Hitler's orders.
91 Jews were killed30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration campsMore than 1500 synagogues were ransacked267 synagogues were set on fireSledgehammers were used to destroy buildings and glass was everywhere in the streets
The term kristallnacht means the night of the broken glass. It was the night Jewish shops and synagogues were attacked by the Nazi's leaving the streets covered in glass.
The night of broken glass, November 9, 1938 This was a series of coordinated attacks against Jews in Nazi Germany by the SA. Streets were covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues.
It was known as the Krystalnacht. (Night of broken glass). The common name was basically just "Roughnecks".
The "Night of the Broken Glass" happened in November 1938. Over two nights, Nazis destroyed homes, schools and businesses held by Jews and killed over 100 people.
"Night of Broken Glass"; November 9-10, 1938; Day Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues across Germany killing and injuring hundreds of Jews and arresting around 30,000
Known as the Night of the Broken Glass 9th November 1938. 2000 Synagogues destroyed, 8000 Jewish shops destroyed and thousands of Jews removed to concentration camps
There weren't any Jewish towns and it was stormtroopers not soldiers who did it.It was called Kristallnacht which literally means "Crystal Night" or "Glass Night."Read more at the link below.
It was the night of 9-10 November of 1938 when Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were destroyed in an organized pogrom of violence by the Nazi SA and SS. It is known as the Night of the Broken Glass.
By whom has the glass been broken?
The kristallnact aka Night of the Broken glass in 1938 was a pogrom series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9-10 November 1938, carried out by SA Stormtroopers and civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening. The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues.