Kristallnacht
Noun
Meaning
Kristallnacht
(historical, Nazism) The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.
Examples
About the humiliations to which Hausdorff and his family especially were exposed to after Kristallnacht in 1938, much is known and from many different sources, such as from the letters of Bessel-Hagen.
After Kristallnacht in 1938, harassment of Jews became more intense, so that many of them emigrated or were arrested.
As we commemorate the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, here is one more for the record: The story of my husband's cousin, a Holocaust survivor.
However, 9 November was also the anniversary of the first large-scale Nazi-led pogroms against Jews in 1938 ( Kristallnacht ), so the day was considered inappropriate as a national holiday.
Memorial stone marking the site of the synagogue in the Lauerstrasse During the Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, Nazis burned down synagogues at two locations in the city.
He named the condition Judeophobia. citation error In the aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, German propaganda minister Goebbels announced: "The German people is anti-Semitic.