The night of the broken glass
By makayla pierce
What happened and when it happened
The night of the broken glass happened on the night of November 9 1938 and continued to the next day.
What had caused the night of the broken glass
Violence against Jews broke out across the reich, it was set off by the Germans
Over anger because one of the German officials was assassinated by a Jewish man 18 years young. The Jewish man shot the German official in retaliation for the cruel treatment by the nazis against his father.
Ernst Vom rath
This is the German official who was shot. He died of his wounds two days later, then that is when the kristallnacht begun.
30,000 Jewish men were arrested in crime of being Jewish.
Many Jewish homes, hospitals, school, and cemeteries were looted while police and the fire department stood by. Dozens of Jewish people were killed.
Herschel gyrsnzapan
The man who was assassinated was Herschel gyrsnzapan, the nazis thought that this was reason to start brutal and destruction apon the Jewish community.