Word: kristallnacht
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...rematch in Yankee Stadium became emblematic of the coming struggle with Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero. He refused to join the Nazi Party and after the war, it was disclosed he had saved two Jews from attack in the Kristallnacht violence of 1938. A quiet philanthropist, he befriended Louis later in life, even paying for the impoverished former champ's 1981 funeral...
...rematch at Yankee Stadium was hailed as a national triumph over Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero; he refused to join the Nazi Party, and after the war, it was disclosed that he had saved two Jews from attack in the Kristallnacht violence in 1938. He befriended Louis later in life, quietly giving the impoverished former champ money and paying for his 1981 funeral...
...slave laborers, and they had died between the ages of 14 and 29. On Monday morning, Lucie Motycková, the caretaker, noticed that 15 of the tombstones had been kicked over and broken off cleanly at the base. It had probably happened the night before, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night the Nazi pogrom against Jews was launched. Motyckova suspects the perpetrators were interrupted - or else they would have finished the job, knocking over all the tombstones and spraypainting death to Jews on the granite plaque, as they had five years...
...Munich. it's the 65th anniversary of Kristallnacht - the infamous pogrom against Jews launched by Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Göbbels - and it's the day construction is set to begin on the city's first major synagogue since World War II. Hundreds of politicians and dignitaries, including German President Johannes Rau, Bavarian State Premier Edmund Stoiber and Paul Spiegel, head of Germany's Jewish community, will attend the groundbreaking ceremony. But if a ring of alleged neo-Nazis had its way, police say, Nov. 9 would also have been the day a bomb containing 1.7 kilos...
...Kristallnacht was a turning point because up to that time, the Nazis did not openly incite the whole population to kill publicly. Before, people were killed secretly and individually, but this happened openly. After that night, the whole world knew it would not get better at all, and Jews knew only a dark future. It was called the "Night of Broken Glass," but it was more than that. You can clean up glass, but you cannot do that with people...