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OCR: Named for the broken giass that lined the streets Kristalinacht or "Night of Crystal T was violent Nazi attack against Jews across ali of Germany and Austria Joseph Goebbels used the shooting German diplomat by an angry Polish Jew as pretext for ordering this pogrom On the evening of Novem iber 1938 and through the next morning, Jews were killed, hundreds more were seriously injured, and 000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps Mobs of Nazi supporters and soldiers attacked Jews and Jewish property destroying approximately 7,500 Jewish businesses, and burning or damaging more than thousand synagogues. On Kristallnacht, Bert's school in Bad Nauheim was attac ked and closed his father was hospitalized and his mother and aunts were beaten Following Kristallnacht the persecution of the J ...