Kristallnacht

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Dutch mark Kristallnacht as Europe, US confront a wave of right-wing populism

Do leaders on the continent have what it takes to counter a right emboldened by international trends?

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 10, 2016 3:08 pm

German neo-Nazi group posts map on social media of 70 Jewish sites

The list was published by a Berlin-based group on the 78th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom.

November 10, 2016 10:51 am

78 Years Ago, Kristallnacht Brought a Country to its Knees

Seventy-eight years ago, on the night of November 9, millions of citizens of one of the western world’s foremost democracies went to sleep believing that the dark forces of human nature would continue being shadowed by the good. But in the wee hours, everything they believed their country stood for, every shared value of decency, of […]

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