Here is an article from Spiegel Magazine about this frightening persecution.
Kristall nacht = Crystal night
A pogrom is an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.
"The Nazis began a pogrom against Jewish people in Germany"
synonyms:massacre, slaughter, wholesale slaughter, mass slaughter, mass killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass execution, night of the long knives, annihilation, extermination, decimation, carnage,bloodbath, bloodletting, butchery, genocide, holocaust, Shoah, ethnic cleansing, megadeath; persecution, witch-hunt, destruction,victimization
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