 The frontpage of The New York Times on November 11, 1938 refers to the attacks occurring “under the direction of Stormtroopers and Nazi party members”, but also said that Goebbels called a stop to it.
Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany on November 9 to 10, 1938. Sobering numbers from The New Jew blog: An estimated 2,000 - 2,500 Jews died as a result of Kristallnacht (murdered during the pogroms or death in transit to concentration camps); some were beaten to death.
30,000 Jews were abducted to concentration camps.
8,000 Jewish shops, windows smashed with sledgehammers leaving the streets covered with glass.
1,668 synagogues were ransacked; 267 were destroyed by fire.
The Jews were fined 1 billion reichsmarks to repair the property damage and restore cleanliness to the German streets.
Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel appears at the Y on May 28 to discuss how the world reacted to this event, what could have been done that wasn’t, how Kristallnacht is seen in world history and why it will stand out in time memoriam.
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