Kristallnacht

In the early hours of November 10 1938 Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—was a decisive stage in the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister forewarning of the Holocaust.With rare insight and acumen Martin Gilbert examines this night and day of terror presenting readers with a meticulously researched masterfully written and eye-opening study of one of the darkest chapters in human history.