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Kristallnacht

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Noun
  1. 1
    The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria. Nazism, historical

    "The Kristallnacht was a monumental development in Nazi anti-Jewish policy for several reasons. It was the single instance of large-scale, public, and organized physical violence against Jews inside Germany before the Second World War."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”, literally “crystal night”).

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