SS bands roamed the streets, firebombing synagogues and Jewish communal institutions, demolishing Jewish shops, routing Jews from their beds and beating them. Sacred scrolls and prayerbooks were thrown into the streets to be desecrated and consumed in bonfires. Rocks were hurled through windows of virtually all Jewish properties. Immediately after Kristallnacht, a fine of one billion marks was levied, not upon the criminal, but upon the victims, the Jewish community of Germany. Nazi policy had now moved into the overt destruction of all Jewish life in the Third Reich.
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