Kristallnacht

English Etymology en de Kristallnacht crystal night night of broken glass. Noun en noun en historical Nazism The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria. en Night of Broken Glass en Alan E. Steinweis Kristallnacht 1938 2009 Harvard University Press 4 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXm3Klg95s0C&pg=PA4&dq=%22Kristallnacht%22&hl=en&cd=6&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Kristallnacht%22&f=false 978-0-674-03623-9 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. en Tom Perkins Progressive Kristallnacht Coming? w:Wall Street Journal 2014-01-24 https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304549504579316913982034286.html 0099-9660 This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now? https://archive.ph/zLjrX 2016-03-14 en Martin Pengelly Schwarzenegger rebukes Trump and compares Capitol riot to Kristallnacht w:The Guardian 2021-01-10 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/capitol-riot-schwarzenegger-rebukes-trump-kristallnacht 0261-3077 Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump on Sunday, comparing the riot at the US Capitol which the president incited to Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 when Nazi thugs attacked Jewish Germans and their property, a harbinger of horrors to come. https://web.archive.org/web/20210704173136/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/capitol-riot-schwarzenegger-rebukes-trump-kristallnacht Translations Catalan: ca nit dels vidres trencats f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 水晶之夜, cmn 碎玻璃之夜 French: fr Nuit de Cristal f German: de Kristallnacht f considered euphemistic, de Reichskristallnacht f, de Reichspogromnacht f Hindi: hi क्रिस्टालनाख़्ट Japanese: ja 水晶の夜 すいしょうのよる, Suishō no Yoru Marathi: mr क्रिस्टालनाख्ट Polish: pl noc kryształowa Portuguese: pt Noite dos Cristais f Russian: ru Ночь разбитых витрин f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb kristalna noc f Upper Sorbian: hsb kristalna nóc Spanish: es noche de los cristales rotos f, es Kristallnacht Further reading en Historical events History of Germany German Etymology de :af Kristall<t:crystal> Nacht<t:night> From de Kristall crystal Nacht night, alluding to the crystals of broken glass from the destroyed shop and synagogue windows. Pronunciation de /kʁɪsˈtalˌnaxt/ de De-Kristallnacht.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun f,^e[rare] de historical euphemism Nazism en Kristallnacht state-organized night of terror staged against Jews de Reichskristallnacht Reichspogromnacht Usage notes This term was widely used in West Germany prior to the 1980s, when it began to be regarded as a euphemism by many. The predominant term in modern German academic literature is de Novemberpogrome November pogroms. Additionally, de Reichspogromnacht Reich pogrom night or the chiefly East German de faschistische Pogromnacht fascist pogrom night can also be used instead. Declension f,^e[rare] Descendants pl noc kryształowa 1 See also de Schicksalstag de Nacht der langen Messer Further reading Novemberpogrome 1938 de de Historical events History of Germany