< ! -- Deleted image removed : On 9 November 1938 , Nazi Germany started a pogrom against Jewish people . Jewish homes were ransacked , as were shops , towns and villages , as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed buildings with sledgehammers , leaving the streets covered in pieces of smashed windows — the origin of the name " Kristallnacht " , which freely translated means the Night of Broken Glass . 91 Jews were killed , and 30,000 Jewish men – a quarter of all Jewish men in Germany – were taken to concentration camps , where they were tortured for months , with over 1,000 of them dying . Around 1,668 synagogues were ransacked , and 267 set on fire . In Vienna alone 95 synagogues or houses of prayer were destroyed
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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