10 Facts About Kristallnacht

1. Many of the destroyed remains of Jewish property plundered during Kristallnacht were dumped near Brandenburg.

2. Extent of the damage done on Kristallnacht was so great that many Germans are said to have expressed their disapproval of it, and to have described it as senseless.

3. Kristallnacht went on to explain: "The German people are anti-Semitic.

4. The press was under orders to downplay the Kristallnacht, describing general events at the local level only, with prohibition against depictions of individual events.

5. Kristallnacht marked a turning point in relations between Nazi Germany and the rest of the world.

6. An account cited that Hitler's green light for Kristallnacht was made with the belief that it would help him realize his ambition of getting rid of the Jews in Germany.

7. Five decades later, 9 November's association with the anniversary of Kristallnacht was cited as the main reason as to why Schicksalstag, the day the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, was not turned into a new German national holiday; a different day was chosen.

8. Kristallnacht opined that events which were then taking place, such as deforestation and ozone depletion, prefigured a greater environmental catastrophe in the same way that Kristallnacht prefigured the Holocaust.

9. Kristallnacht was the inspiration for the 1993 album Kristallnacht by the composer John Zorn.

10. Kristallnacht was publicly referenced on January 10, 2021 by the former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger in a speech decrying the actions of President Donald Trump and the attack he incited on the U S Capitol on January 6.