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November 9th People of Jewish faith remember the "Night of Broken Glass" or Kristallnacht, called this because so much glass from store windows were broken. The German propaganda minister and Nazis organized pogroms, a Russian word meaning "to
wreak havoc" which was organized against the Jewish population. Starting on November 9th, 1938 and lasting two days.

The Jewish people were considered inferior and labeled by the government as such, 30,000 German Jews were arrested following the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a Jewish teenager. They were arrested, per the Nazi party for being Jewish, which was considered a crime. During this time Synagogues were burned down, Jewish businesses, hospitals, cemeteries, and homes were looted and destroyed. Both men and women were sent to concentration camps were hundreds would die.

After the Kristallnacht, German and Austrian Jewish children and teens were not allowed to go to museums, public playgrounds, swimming pools, and public schools. They were literally segregated from the rest of the German population, for being ethnically inferior. Many of the families tried to leave, while others committed suicide.

The Holocaust would follow the state sponsored prosecution and murder of approximately six million Jews. If your not sure what the word Holocaust means, it is Greek, meaning to sacrifice by fire. Not only were Jews considered inferior, so were gypsies, the disabled, and last but not least - homosexuals.

To label a group of people as inferior, or to treat them differently, assigning a different set of rules for them to follow - how far will society go once again? The many decided over a few, who should have rights, and those who should not.