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The Night of Broken Glass: When Nazi Terror Went Public
On November 9, 1938, the Nazi regime orchestrated a nationwide pogrom against Jews that shattered the illusion of peaceful persecution. This episode examines the Kristallnacht pogrom in detail: the assassination of Ernst vom Rath in Paris by Herschel Grynszpan, the spontaneous-seeming but carefully coordinated attacks on synagogues, businesses, and homes, the murder of at least 91 Jews, and the deportation of 30,000 Jewish men to concentration camps. We discuss the legal aftermath—the Decree on the Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life and the collective fine of one billion…
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