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On the 9th of November 1938, the Nazis organized a series of mobs against Jews in Germany. Thousands of synagogues, Jewish businesses, and homes were destroyed and burned. Tens of thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps. This event came to be called Kristallnacht or the "Night of the Broken Glass.”
On the 9th of November 1938, the Nazis organized a series of mobs against Jews in Germany. Thousands of synagogues, Jewish businesses, and homes were destroyed and burned. Tens of thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps. This event came to be called Kristallnacht or the "Night of the Broken Glass.”
World reaction was strongly negative, especially in the United States, where systematic boycotts were organized against German products.
==Further reading==
* Evans, Richard J. ''The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939'' 2005. 800 pp.
* Friedlander, Saul. ''Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939'' (1998)
[[Category:Holocaust]]
[[Category:Holocaust]]