Kristallnacht

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Kristallnacht was a state-organized pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany in November 1938, marked by widespread violence, destruction of synagogues and Jewish property, and mass arrests that signaled a major escalation toward the Holocaust.

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf antisemitic pogrom
crime against humanity
historical event
cause assassination of Ernst vom Rath
commemoratedOn November 10
November 9
concentrationCampDestination Buchenwald
surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Dachau
surface form: Dachau concentration camp

Sachsenhausen concentration camp
country Nazi Germany
endDate 1938-11-10
followedBy escalation toward the Holocaust
intensified Aryanization of Jewish property
hasAlternativeName Kristallnacht
surface form: Night of Broken Glass

Kristallnacht
surface form: November pogroms

Kristallnacht
surface form: Reichskristallnacht
historicalSignificance marked a transition from discrimination to widespread physical violence against Jews in Nazi Germany
signaled a major escalation in Nazi antisemitic policy
ideology antisemitism
location Austria
Germany
Czechoslovakia
surface form: Sudetenland
numberOfJewishBusinessesDamaged thousands
numberOfJewsArrested about 30000
numberOfJewsDeportedToConcentrationCamps about 30000
numberOfJewsKilled at least 90
numberOfSynagoguesDestroyed over 1000
orderedBy Adolf Hitler
organizedBy Nazi Party officials
surface form: Nazi Party leadership
partOf persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany
perpetrator German police forces
Hitler Youth
Nazi Germany
surface form: Nazi regime

SA
SS
plannedBy Joseph Goebbels
precededBy NurembergLaws
surface form: Nuremberg Laws
result destruction of Jewish religious life in many communities
increased Jewish emigration from Germany
mass arrests of Jewish men
startDate 1938-11-09
target Jewish homes
Jewish synagogues
Jewish-owned businesses
Jews
usedAsPretext assassination of Ernst vom Rath
victim Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora
surface form: Austrian Jews

Czechoslovak Jews in annexed territories
German Jews

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Input
Subject: Kristallnacht
Description of subject: Kristallnacht was a state-organized pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany in November 1938, marked by widespread violence, destruction of synagogues and Jewish property, and mass arrests that signaled a major escalation toward the Holocaust.

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Holocaust precededBy Kristallnacht
Nazi Germany notableEvent Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht hasAlternativeName Kristallnacht
this entity surface form: Night of Broken Glass
Kristallnacht hasAlternativeName Kristallnacht
this entity surface form: Reichskristallnacht
Kristallnacht hasAlternativeName Kristallnacht
this entity surface form: November pogroms
Interwar period significantEvent Kristallnacht
Nazism implementedPolicy Kristallnacht
this entity surface form: Kristallnacht pogrom
Nazi war crimes notableEvent Kristallnacht
Third Reich notableEvent Kristallnacht
Aryanization of Jewish property significantlyIntensifiedAfter Kristallnacht
this entity surface form: Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938
Protection Squadron significantEvent Kristallnacht
German Jews victimOf Kristallnacht
Austrian Jews historicalEvent Kristallnacht
this entity surface form: November pogroms of 1938 in Austria