What was the kristallnaucht?

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Answer 1

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a wave of programs against Germany's Jews. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. This event came to be called Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German streets.

The pretext for this violence was the November 7 assassination of a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager whose parents, along with 17,000 other Polish Jews, had been recently expelled from the Reich. Though portrayed as spontaneous outbursts of popular outrage, these pogroms were calculated acts of retaliation carried out by the SA, SS, and local Nazi party organizations.

Stormtroopers killed at least 91 Jews and injured many others. For the first time, Jews were arrested on a massive scale and transported to Nazi concentration camps. About 30,000 Jews were sent to Buchenwald, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen, where hundreds died within weeks of arrival. Release came only after the prisoners arranged to emigrate and agreed to transfer their property to "Aryans."

Kristallnacht culminated the escalating violence against Jews that began during the incorporation of Austria into the Reich in March 1938. It also signaled the fateful transfer of responsibility for "solving" the "Jewish Question" to the SS.

Answer 2

Kristallnacht, also known as Reichskristallnacht (the Nazi term), Novemberpogrome, Pogromnacht, Crystal Night and the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom[1] against Jews throughout Germany and parts of Austria on November 9–10, 1938.

Jewish homes and stores were ransacked in a thousand German cities, towns and villages,[2] as ordinary citizens and stormtroopers destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets covered in smashed windows — the origin of the name "Night of Broken Glass." Jews were beaten to death; 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps; and 1,668 synagogues ransacked or set on fire.

Answer 3

Kristallnacht was when when the Nazis destroyed Jewish-owned businesses in the 1930's. Before the holocaust happened, this was a sign that German citizens could no longer buy anything from those stores.

Answer 4

Kristallnaucht was known as the night of broken glass. Jewish homes and stores were ransacked in a thousand German cities, towns and villages, as ordinary citizens and stormtroopers destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets covered in smashed windows — the origin of the name "Night of Broken Glass." Jews were beaten to death; 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps; and 1,668 synagogues ransacked or set on fire.

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Answer 5

Kristrallnacht translates to mean "Night of the Broken Glass" and marked a severe turn in the treatment of Jews under Nazi rule. Synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses were vandalized or destroyed.

Answer 6

Kristallnacht was the night of broken glass, when the nazi's vandalized jewish homes, business, they burned synagogues. it was a terrifing night for thousands of people both jewish and german. there is so many websites out there that cover this area of WWII
some websites to help you further
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-knacht.htm
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/Kristallnacht.htm
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/NR1938.htm (photos)

Answer 7

When the Nazi smashed all the store windows of the jewish businesses.
Its Kristallnacht. for Crystal and night.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

"Kristallnacht',or 'night (of) chrystal(glass)','Kristalnight' was the nazi youths reprisal for the assassnition of one of their ministers in 'Paris'.
The assasination of the diplomat was commited by a German teenager,who additionally was Jewish.