Kristallnacht Or Night Of Broken Glass

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The Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass was the event when on 9 and 10 November 1938, anti-Jewish protests erupted in Germany. During that night 7500 Jewish homes and businesses and 267 synagogues were damaged or destroyed. 30,000 Jews were taken to concentration camps and 36 Jews were killed. The SS who began destroying Jewish property at around 1:20am November 10, were given incredibly specific orders. The rules were simple and designed to keep the damage limited to just the Jewish population, no measures were to be taken against non-Jewsish German property this extended to Jewish Synougauges near German households (which were smashed as opposed to burned), Jewish Bisunesses were to be destroyed however not looted, foreigners inclulding