Night of Broken Glass
The Night of the broken glass (Hebrew: ליל הבדולח), also called Kristallnacht, is the most infamous Anti-Semitic Pogrom in history occurred on November 9, 1938.
The pogrom occurred throughout Germany, instigated primarily by Nazi party officials and the SA. The name Kristallnacht has its origin in the untold numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogrom.
The pogrom left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned and 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed.
Before that night and during the 1920s the German Jews were fully integrated into German society as German citizens. They served in the German army and contributed to every field of German science, business and culture.
The chance began after the appointment of Adolf Hitler , as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 .Hitler began quickly to introduce anti-Jewish policies. The 500,000 Jews in Germany, , were singled out by the Nazi propaganda machine as an enemy within who were responsible for Germany's defeat in the First World War and for its subsequent economic difficulties. The German government enacted a series of anti-Jewish laws restricting the rights of German Jews to earn a living, to enjoy full citizenship and to educate themselves, including the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which forbade Jews to work in the civil service.
The subsequent 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and forbade Jews to marry non-Jewish Germans.
The pogrom occurred throughout Germany, instigated primarily by Nazi party officials and the SA. The name Kristallnacht has its origin in the untold numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogrom.
The pogrom left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned and 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed.
Before that night and during the 1920s the German Jews were fully integrated into German society as German citizens. They served in the German army and contributed to every field of German science, business and culture.
The chance began after the appointment of Adolf Hitler , as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 .Hitler began quickly to introduce anti-Jewish policies. The 500,000 Jews in Germany, , were singled out by the Nazi propaganda machine as an enemy within who were responsible for Germany's defeat in the First World War and for its subsequent economic difficulties. The German government enacted a series of anti-Jewish laws restricting the rights of German Jews to earn a living, to enjoy full citizenship and to educate themselves, including the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which forbade Jews to work in the civil service.
The subsequent 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and forbade Jews to marry non-Jewish Germans.
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