The Night of the Broken Glass. Eric and Cecilia

A building being burned during the Kristallnacht
A Jewish business that was destroyed.
A Jewish church was being set on fire.

November, 9, 1938: Violence against Jews broker out across Reich. The violence was set off by Germans who were angry about a German official that was assassinated in Paris by a Jewish teenager. The pogroms were deliberately organized and planned by a German propaganda minister and nazis. Hundreds and thousands of Jewish homes and businesses were destroyed.

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