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The streets of the main cities were littered with glass, and the night became known as "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night).
CNN: Saturday,
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Even so, Gestapo agents came looking for him immediately after Kristallnacht, the start of intense pogroms against Jews in 1938.
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If this sounds as if the Nazis meant the resulting two-day pogrom better known as Kristallnacht to look spontaneous, it was anything but.
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The time of their parting, late in 1938, coincided with Kristallnacht (night of broken glass), when Goebbels organised anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria.
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While tonight you commemorate a Jewish pogrom, I told them, Christianity has just suffered its own "Kristallnacht" ... and I have yet to see much of a Christian response.
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After the Nazi annexation of Austria and the violence of Kristallnacht ("the Night of Shattered Glass"), both in 1938, the demand to emigrate escalated, and long lines formed at U.S. consulates.
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It was in November 1938 the darkest, most ominous year for the Jews of Europe in eighteen centuries that the worst pogrom in modern history, Kristallnacht, was instigated by the Nazis all across Germany: synagogues incinerated, the residences and businesses of Jews destroyed, and, throughout a night presaging the monstrous future, Jews by the thousands forcibly taken from their homes and transported to concentration camps.
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