num_pages: 314
description: In the early hours of November 10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed, while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—was a decisive stage in the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister forewarning of the Holocaust. With rare insight and acumen, Martin Gilbert examines this night and day of terror, presenting readers with a meticulously researched, masterfully written, and eye-opening study of one of the darkest chapters in human history.
language: English
title: Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction
titlecomplete: Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction (Making History)
genres: Holocaust, History, World War II, European History, World History, Germany, War, Nonfiction, Judaism, Jewish
ratings_count: 408
publisher: Harper Perennial