Kristallnacht: Nazis Attack Jewish Shops, Synagogues, Homes Across Germany
SA paramilitaries and civilians smashed Jewish storefronts and burned over 1,000 synagogues while police watched silently. This coordinated pogrom arrested 30,000 men for concentration camps and signaled the shift from discrimination to systematic extermination. Foreign journalists reported the violence globally, exposing Nazi brutality to a shocked world just as the regime prepared for the Holocaust.
November 9, 1938
88 years ago
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