Kristallnacht

' ( ) 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

Polish Jewish resistance fighter

German diplomat (1909-1938)

oratorio by Michael Tippett

The Judenvermögensabgabe ("Jewish Capital Levy") was an arbitrary special tax imposed on German Jews under the Nazi dictatorship. The tax was only a part of a larger series of actions taken by the Nazis to systematically plunder Jewish assets.

Australian Aboriginal activist (1861–1941)

former department store in Berlin, Germany

British rabbi (1882-1965)