Synopsis
Kristallnacht or The Night of the Broken Glass took place in November 1938, in which SA paramilitary forces and civilians attacked Jewish people.
- Programme: Nazis: A Warning from History
- Episode: 02: Chaos and Consent
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1997
- History | Germany, 1890-1945 | Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-39 | The persecution of minorities
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