It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
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kristallnacht
Kristallnacht had nothing to do with military strategy. Please see related question.
In English it is called the Night of Broken (the) Glassand in German it is called Kristallnacht.
During the Kristallnacht and the days that followed about 30,000 German Jews were sent to concentration camps.
Ernst vom Rath.
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The German government wanted to create the impression that the German people were unhappy with the Jews. The purported reason was that the German people were unhappy with the assassination of a German diplomat by a Jew.
Joseph Goebbels publicly blamed the Jews for Kristallnacht, claiming that it was a spontaneous reaction by the German population to the assassination of a German diplomat by a Jewish refugee. He portrayed it as a justified response against Jewish economic and social influence in Germany.
Kristallnacht : 9-10 November 1938 .
That was the starting point in putting into effect the Final Solution.
Kristallnacht was triggered by the assassination in France of a German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 91 Jews were murdered and some 30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps. More than 200 synagogues were destroyed and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. Kristallnacht also served as a pretext and a means for the wholesale confiscation of firearms from German Jews