Kristallnacht
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- Date created
- November 1938
- Location
- Germany
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- This photograph copyright ©2009. All Rights Reserved
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- Original image housed by Wikipedia
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Passersby look at the broken windows of a shop that was vandalized during Kristallnacht, “Night of Broken Glass.” A flag with a swastika hangs down in front of a window next door. On November 9th and 10th in 1938, more that 7,000 Jewish shops and 1,600 synagogues were damaged or destroyed.
