November 9-10, 1938 - Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and homes, and beat and murdered Jewish men, women, and children across Germany and Austria.
Known as Kristallnacht, it was a night of organized violence against Jews marking the beginning of the Holocaust with the killing of 91 and the deportation of 30,000 to concentration camps.
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The German word translates to "the Night of Broken Glass," so called because of the vast number of broken windows in Jewish shops, 5 million marks worth ($1,250,000).
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