New Perspectives on Kristallnacht

On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi leadership unleashed anunprecedented orchestrated wave of violence against Jews in Germany, Austria,and the Sudetenland, supposedly in response to the assassination of a Nazidiplomat by a young Polish Jew, but in reality to force the remaining Jews out ofthe country. During the pogrom, Stormtroopers, Hitler Youth, and ordinaryGermans murdered more than a hundred Jews (many more committed suicide) andransacked and destroyed thousands of Jewish institutions, synago