That was the starting point in putting into effect the Final Solution.
During the Kristallnacht and the days that followed about 30,000 German Jews were sent to concentration camps.
Kristallnacht : 9-10 November 1938 .
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.
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.
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
During the Kristallnacht and the days that followed about 30,000 German Jews were sent to concentration camps.
Kristallnacht : 9-10 November 1938 .
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.
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.
The murder of a German diplomat
German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
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
Hitler ordered Kristallnacht as an excuse to get rid of Jews, or capture Jews that had been individually selected to be arrested.
The short answer was that they were not. The German government wanted to portray an image that he German civilians were rising up in a popular movement against the Jews, but this was not the case, the anti-Jewish actions of that night were mainly carried out by agents of the Nazis.
The Kristallnacht was the first organized Nazi pogrom against the Jews. For the first time there was widespread, organized, physical violence against the Jews in Germany during the Nazi period. German Jews were left in no doubt that they were no longer safe in Germany. (There had been several, isolated incidents before that).
Kristallnacht is translated from German into "night of broken glass," which is fitting. Kristallnacht was when Nazis ran through towns smashing windows of German businesses and shops and setting fire to those businesses. Jews were beaten during that day, and forced to relocate elsewhere. It was the start of the Nazi's Final Solution.
I believe what you're referring to is Kristallnacht (German; translates as 'Night of Broken Glass').