Kristallnacht

Noun

Kristallnacht

1. (Nazism, historical) The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.
   • The Kristallnacht was a monumental development in Nazi anti-Jewish policy for several reasons. It was the single instance of large-scale, public, and organized physical violence against Jews inside Germany before the Second World War.2009, Alan E. Steinweis, Kristallnacht 1938, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 4
   • This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now?2014 January 24, Tom Perkins, “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2016

   Synonyms:

   Night of Broken Glass