In the same year as the annexation , " the Night of Broken Glass " ( '' Kristallnacht '' ) was carried out in Austria . The Nazis blamed it on the Jewish refugee , Herschel Grynszpan , whom assassinated the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in France , and Jewish synagogues and buildings all over Austria were destroyed and robbed by the Hitler Youth and the SA , as were many homes of the Jewish population . During that night 27 Jews were murdered
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
History of the Jews in Austria