Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces along... Wikipedia

• Location:  Nazi Germany, (then including Austria and the Sudetenland)
• Date:  1938-11-9–1938-11-10 (1938-11-9 – 1938-11-10)
• Target:  Jews
• Attack type:  Pogrom, purge, looting, arson, mass arrests, homicide, kidnapping
• Perpetrators:  Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, Sturmabteilung (SA) stormtroopers, Schutzstaffel (SS), Hitler Youth, German civilians
• Motive:  Revenge for Ernst vom Rath's assassination, antisemitism
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo