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On Nov. 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Jew, shot Ernst von Rath, a German minister. When vom Rath died two days later, the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, let it be known that any “spontaneous” demonstrations of German anger at the Jews would not be stopped by the government.
Leaders of the “Brown Shirts” took this to mean that it was the time to take “action” against the Jews of Germany.
During the next two days, the Jews of Germany and Austria suffered terribly at the hands of their fellow citizens: 91 Jews were killed, 267 synagogues were burned to the ground, 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and 20,000 Jews ended up in concentration camps.
Because city streets were littered with all the broken glass from storefronts, this pogrom came to be called Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass.
