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What was the German name for the night the windows of the Jewish gettos were smashed at the start of World War 2?
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Kristallnacht (literally "Crystal Night") or the Night of Broken Glass
also known as :
Novemberpogrome -the pogrom of november
, Reichskristallnacht -the reich's Crystal night
, Reichspogromnacht - reich's pogrom
,Pogromnacht
91 Jews were murdered and 25,000 to 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps. 267 synagogues were destroyed, and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. This was done by the Hitler Youth, the Gestapho and the SS.
Kristallnacht also served as a pretext and a means for the wholesale confiscation of firearms from German Jews to prevent their resistance at a later date
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