Arson in Germany

' ( ) or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s)' (, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. The euphemistic name comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination, on 9 November 1938, of the German dipl

arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933

destruction of the Protestant city of Magdeburg on 20 May 1631 by the Imperial Army and the forces of the Catholic League

neo-nazi arson attack on Turkish home in Solingen

June 1964 school massacre in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany

German war crime - massacre near the town Gardelegen in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

xenophobic riots in Rostock, Germany

shooting in Lörrach, Germany

accusation of Jewish ritual murder in 1900