The name given to the day of early Nazi anti-Semitic rage when its members went on a rampage on the night of 9-10 Nov, 1938, murdering Jews who had long lived as their neighbours, and ransacking and destroying thousands of shops, homes, and synagogues in cities after cities in Germany, and ending with the deportation of some 30,000 Jews to the first concentration camps. The name is German for "the Night of the Broken Glass." The Kristallnacht represented the earliest public demonstration of what was to come for the Jews in Nazi Germany.
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