On the night of November 9 was Vom Rath’s death. Also on November 9 was known as Kristallnacht or The Night Broken Glass. Kristallnacht all started by the killing of Vom Rath’s death. Groups of mobs in Germany acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland attacked all the Jews on the streets, homes, and their places of work and worship they owned. The Nazis answered violence with violence, conducting a group against the Jews in Germany, Austria, and Studetenland.

There were about 96 Jews killed and hundreds hurt bad on the night of Kristallnacht. More then 1,000 synagogues were burnt down in ashes and almost 7,500 places to work were destroyed. Just about everything was destroyed and 30,000 Jews that night were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

The broken glass from Kristallnacht that Germans walk by it and look.

The Nazis storm troopers were going on a rampage burning and looting lots of Jewish shops and burning most synagogues to the ground. Firemen were told to let all the building burn down The leader of the attack that was known as The Night of Broken Glass was by Joseph Goebbels with Hitler’s approval in 1938 on the night of November 9.

. The nazis told the protests with a warning that if any more action would happen against Germany would lead to more Jewish people suffering and going to more concentration camps.

For the past years there were a lot of laws passed about The Night of Broken Glass. In the first half numerous laws were passed restricting Jewish economic activity and occupational opportunities. July 1938 there was a law passed that said Jews to carry identification cards.

The burning of a synagogue.

A wide-ranging set of anti-Semitic laws was passed that had to clear intent. These laws were used for about two or three months.

1.      All Jews had to give all precious metals to the government.

2.      Pensions for Jews were gone from civil service jobs were arbitrarily reduced.

3.      Things Jews owned can be alienated only to German state.

4.      Jews were physically segregated within German towns for a while.

5.      A ban of Jewish carrier pigeons that Jews sent letters with.

6.      The Jews got their drivers licenses taking away.

7.       The confiscation Jews owned radios.

8.      Now all the Jews had a curfew to keep them from going into the streets. In the summer they had to be in between 5:00am and 9:00pm. In the winter they had to be in between 6:00am and 8:00pm.

9.      Laws protecting tenants were made non-applicable to all Jewish tenants.

10.  The Jews cannot carry any weapons such as guns.

They had a meeting about all the damage that had happened to the Jews. Hermann Goring suggested the Jews be forced to pay a fine that was one billion German Reich marks. All insurance companies were not exposed to pay any of the damage that happened to the Jews.

In 1938-1939 there was about 100,000 Jews that had left Germany but another 116,000 emigrated from Austria with been annexed by Germany around March 1938.

The pillage had only gone on for about fifteen hours leaving streets littered with broken glass of all the buildings. Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass only lasted for one day.