Thursday, November 09, 2006
This Day in History
On this day in 1938, the ruling National Socialists Party gave a pretty clear idea of what was in store for the Jews in German held territory over the next 7 years by an organized, coordinated series of Synagogue burnings and vandalism and burglary of Jewish businesses and homes all over Germany and Austria. The amount of broken glass on the street in front of the smashed front windows inspired the name of this Holocaust preview, die Kristallnacht. However, many Jews were beaten to death by the storm troopers that night, and as many as 30,000 were taken away to concentration camps, so it wasn't just a property pogrom.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:13 AM 
