In Berlin this weekend, about a hundred businesses will be affixing decals to their storefront windows. The decals simulate broken glass, memorializing the shattered windows of Jewish stores attacked 75-years ago on Kristallnacht.
On Nov. 9, 1938 — 75 years ago this weekend — one of the most notorious events in the history of the Third Reich began across Germany and Austria. Using the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst von Rath in Paris as an excuse, hundreds of Nazis destroyed Jewish-owned businesses, burned down synagogues and savagely attacked Jews and other minorities. The so-called “Kristallnacht” pogrom (Read more…)