#OnThisDay in 1938, Night of Broken Glass, a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany.
The rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.
The rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.
Over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.
Estimates of fatalities caused by the attacks have varied. Early reports estimated that 91 Jews had been murdered. Modern analysis of German scholarly sources puts the figure much higher.
“I have seen several anti-Jewish outbreaks in Germany during the last five years, but never anything as nauseating as this. I saw fashionably dressed women clapping their hands and screaming with glee, while respectable middle-class mothers held up their babies to see the "fun".
Jews being forced to walk with the star of David during the Kristallnacht in Nazi-Germany in the night of 9-10 November 1938.
📸 colorized by me for The Colour of Time.
