Perhaps you are referring to "Kristallnacht," or the "Night of the Broken Glass," which occurred in Germany and Austria. It was an organized wave of anti-Jewish violence, where Jewish-owned shops were destroyed or vandalized, and homes where Jews lived as well as synagogues where Jews worshipped, had their windows smashed. German law enforcement personnel did nothing to protect the buildings or the terrified owners, and in some cases, may have even participated in the attacks. It was not just buildings that were damaged-- at least 91 Jews were killed, and it was the beginning of an organized campaign of rounding up large numbers of Jews and shipping them off to concentration camps.
Forty-eight hours after November 9, 1938, "The Night of Broken Glass," thousands of Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) was a pogrom (a 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 .
Kristallnacht : 9-10 November 1938 .
The Nazis had a major problem with the Jews and this is still remembered many years later. The rampage took place in 1938 and it is called the Kristallnacht.
The Night of Broken Glass ( Kristallnact ) happened on November 9th, 1938.
The Night of Broken Glass is also known as Kristallnacht in German. It happened on November 9 and 10, 1938 as a series of attacks against the Jews in Nazi Germany. It was a way to terrify the Jews and capture them to kill or confine to concentration camps.
1938 marked the first appearance of Superman. In Germany, Hitler was consolidating his power, beginning with the persecution of the Jews and an invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The main wave of property seizing lasted from immediately after Kristallnacht (10 November 1938) till the end of January 1939.
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.
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass in November 1938 changed the tone of Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany from only a legal segregation between Germans and Jews to actual violent persecution, theft, and murder of Jews.
Kristallnacht means Night of Broken Glass. This pogrom happened in November 1938 in Germany. Hitler permitted Joseph Goebbels (minister of propaganda) to start a pogrom against Jews throughout the Reich (the Empire). Nazi stormtroopers smashed Jewish shops, and thousands of Jews were arrested. They burnt over 400 synagogues, and killed about 100 Jews. About 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps.
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.