The occurrence of kristallnacht, or the night of broken glass, in germany in 1938 showed that the nazi government fully supported violence against jews. needed more support to hold onto power. had recovered from its economic problems. could not prevent violence against jews.

The occurrence of Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938 showed that the Nazi government fully supported violence against Jews.

The Kristallnacht was a series of lynchings and combined attacks that occurred in Nazi Germany (including Austria as well) during the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 and carried out against Jewish citizens by the SA assault troops along with the population civil, while the German authorities observed without intervening.

Presented by Nazi officials as a spontaneous reaction of the population after the murder, on November 7, 1938, of Ernst vom Rath, secretary of the German embassy in Paris by a young Polish Jew of German origin, Herschel Grynszpan, the reality is that the pogroms were ordered by the Führer, Adolf Hitler, organized by Joseph Goebbels and committed by members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Hitler Youth, supported by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Gestapo and other forces of the police.

These pogroms were directed against the Jewish citizens and their properties, as well as the destruction of the synagogues throughout the country.The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass belonging to the store windows and the windows of the property buildings.

At least 91 Jewish citizens were killed during the attacks and another 30,000 were detained and subsequently deported to the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and Dachau.The houses of the Jewish population, as well as their hospitals and schools, were looted and destroyed by the attackers, demolishing them with mallets. More than 1,000 synagogues were burned -95 alone in Vienna-and more than 7,000 Jewish-owned stores were destroyed or seriously damaged.

The Kristallnacht was followed by a persistent political and economic persecution of the Jewish population, and is considered by historians as part of racial politics in Nazi Germany and the previous step of the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.