Novemberpogrom#

November Pogrom, anti-Semitic pogrom in the night of November 9, 1938 in the entire German Reich; the National Socialists presented it as a spontaneous reaction of the German people after the attack by Herschel Grynszpan on E. E. von Rath, the secretary of the German embassy, in Paris on November 7, 1938. In reality the pogrom was initiated by J. Goebbels and was mainly carried out by the SA. In the course of the pogrom all the synagogues and many stores owned by Jews were destroyed or heavily damaged; many Jews were murdered or injured. At the same time Jews were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps. The November pogrom was one of the first climaxes of National Socialist terror against Jews, which later culminated in what has come to be known as the "Final Solution", i.e. the systematic extermination of Jews.

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