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The term Night of Broken Glass (German: Kristallnacht) came into being following a pogrom (concerted attack against Jews, Jewish homes and Jewish businesses) on 9-10 November 1938. Following the assassination of Nazi Ernst Vom Rath by Jewish Herschel Grynzspan, the Hitler Youth, SS, Gestapo and supportive citizens carried out the attacks which left 91 Jews dead, 267 synagogues destroyed and saw 25,000 to 30,000 Jews arrested and placed in concentration camps (they were released after three months, but 2000 died while incarcerated). Countless Jewish homes and businesses were ransacked and so many windows shattered that broken glass lay in piles in the streets - hence the name.

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