Kristallnacht

Pogroms throughout Reich. Nearly one hundred Jews killed, twenty-thirty thousand Jewish males arrested, more than two hundred synagogues destroyed, and more than seven thousand stores looted.

iconView of the old synagogue in Aachen after its destruction on Kristallnacht. iconView of the destroyed interior of the Hechingen synagogue the day after Kristallnacht. iconGermans pass by the broken shop window of a Jewish-owned business that was destroyed during Kristallnacht. iconMale Jews are arrested during Kristallnacht and forced to march through the town streets under SS guard to watch the desecration of a synagogue, then to be deported.