The night of anti-Jewish violence became known as Kristallnacht OR "night of broken glass".
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Kristallancht was also called the night of the broken glass. It was a government-sponsored outbreak of violence against the Jews in Germany called progroms.Ê
the night of the broken glass
Sturmabteilung or 'storm department' (SA), the paramilitary brown-shirt thugs of the Nazi Party in Germany prior to WWII. The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) or 'National Socialist German Workers Party' (Nazi), was a Fascist para-military organization that used intimidation, violence & propaganda. The 'brown-shirts' were the people most often associated with the violence used by the Nazi's & Adolf Hitler to gain power in Germany.
Also known as the "Nacht und Nebel". The night and fog decree was a new campaign for the Nazi party to get information and to make the threats disappear into the night and fog.They were usually arrested in the middle of the night and quickly taken to prisons hundreds of miles away. When they were there, they were tortured, questioned for information, and killed. So basically, it was to make the threats to him disappear into the night and fog and to never return to their families.
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