Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The night of November 9, 1938, on which the Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Kristallnacht is German for "the night of crystal."
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Kristallnacht is German for "the night of crystal."
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To compare it to Kristallnacht is historically inaccurate and inflammatory.
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“Today the evidence of an ecological Kristallnacht is as clear as the sound of glass shattering in Berlin,” Gore wrote.
Think Progress » Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’ 2006
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BERLIN - Germany's president has inaugurated a new synagogue on the anniversary of the 1938 Nazi anti-Jewish pogrom that was known as "Kristallnacht," or the "Night of Broken Glass."
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BERLIN - Germany's president has inaugurated a new synagogue on the anniversary of the 1938 Nazi anti-Jewish pogrom that was known as "Kristallnacht," or the "Night of Broken Glass."
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The name Kristallnacht, strictly translated from the German "crystal night" refers to actually two evenings of shattered glass across the region.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com J.D. Brian Levin 2010
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It was called Kristallnacht, Crystal Night, because it happened at night and a lot of plate glass was broken, and because the word “crystal” simultaneously distracted from, and raised a toast to, the ferociousness of the rioting—and perhaps finally also because the word echoed the title of one of Goebbels’s favorite books on propaganda technique, Edward Bernays’s Crystallizing Public Opinion.
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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The play's title refers to Kristallnacht, it's set in 1938, and it solves the mystery of why Sylvia has lost the use of her legs: Thanks to these dazzling performances, you can just about accept Miller's slightly humorless conclusion, conveyed in typical bravura fashion by Mr. Sher, that her illness is caused by the Hitler that lurks inside every impotent, self-hating Jewish husband.
The Witty Bits of a Play Paul Levy 2011
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And on the Nazi anti-Semitic pogrom known as Kristallnacht, this is what the newspaper had to say:
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