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The action was carried out by the Brownshirts (SA) on orders from Goebbels. The victims were Jews. Some of the Brownshirts were ordered to wear ordinary civilian clothes in order to give the impression that the perpetrators were angry members of the public.

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it was not, as the Nazis would have had the world believe, an unpremeditated public response to von Rath's assasination. But it was a calculated action by the leadership.

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