Growing Up in Nazi Berlin, historian Peter Gay recalls cycling through Berlin on the morning of November 10, 1938. The city, ...

On the 75th anniversary of “the night of broken glass,” scholars still grapple with the ramifications of that watershed ... Until Kristallnacht, a lot of people still hoped Hitler wouldn’t last — ...

Elsbeth Rosenfeld talks about Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) - an organised nationwide attack on Jews - and compares it to a declaration of war. After a description of the horror of ...

“This is how it started with the Germans.” Kristallnacht, which means “Night of Broken Glass,” was a series of Nazi government-coordinated anti-Jewish riots that swept through virtually ...

Designated “the night of broken glass,” the 14-hour wave of Nazi violence ... Berlin Zionist Organization member Benno Cohn testified that Hitler ordered the main synagogue in Munich destroyed ...

The 1938 night of broken glass produced an orgy of violence against Jews. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she lacked the words to describe it. In a speech in Berlin's Rykestrasse synagogue ...

During a night that would go down in history as Kristallnacht("night of broken glass"), homes were ransacked ... and brought fierce denunciations of Hitler and Nazism. A few months later ...

The Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht, marks the beginning of the Holocaust. "I remember like it was yesterday. It was the ninth of November," said Holocaust survivor Sidney Bratt.

The Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was staged by Adolf Hitler's stormtroops, Hitler Youths, and German civilians nationwide on 9–10 November 1938, allegedly in revenge ...