IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1435 
Recognizing the 70th anniversary of the 1938 occurrence of Kristallnacht, 
The Night of Broken Glass. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008 
Mr. HODES (for himself, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. HASTINGS of Flor-
ida, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. WEINER, Mr. KLEIN of Flor-
ida, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. COHEN, Mr. BURTON 
of Indiana, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. BERKLEY, Mrs. CAPPS, Mrs. 
MALONEY of New York, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. KIRK, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. 
BERMAN, Mr. KAGEN, Ms. LEE, Mr. CARNAHAN, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 
ELLISON, Mr. SIRES, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. MILLER of North 
Carolina, Mr. RAMSTAD, Mr. MARSHALL, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. FRANK 
of Massachusetts, Mr. PENCE, Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. NAD-
LER, and Mr. MITCHELL) submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the 70th anniversary of the 1938 occurrence 
of Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. 
Whereas November 9, 2008, through November 10, 2008, 
marks the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, The Night 
of Broken Glass; 
Whereas during Kristallnacht, hundreds of synagogues in 
Germany and Austria were burned and destroyed, busi-
nesses and homes were ransacked, scores of innocent peo-
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ple were killed because they were Jews, and thousands of 
others were arrested and sent to concentration camps; 
Whereas Kristallnacht was sanctioned by the Nazi state to 
foment anti-Semitism and terrorize Jewish citizens; 
Whereas the shattered panes of glass that littered sidewalks, 
most of it coming from the shop windows of Jewish 
stores, gave the pogrom its name, Kristallnacht or 
‘‘Night of Broken Glass’’; 
Whereas Kristallnacht marked the Nazis’ first centrally orga-
nized operation of large-scale, anti-Jewish violence; 
Whereas the lack of any serious diplomatic consequences 
from civilized nations led the Governments of Germany 
and Austria to believe that further atrocities would go 
unpunished; 
Whereas Kristallnacht served as a prelude to the Second 
World War, to the death of millions of innocent people, 
and to the mass murders and carnage on a scale never 
before seen in human history; 
Whereas the reign of the Nazi government marks one of the 
darkest periods in civilized history; and 
Whereas Kristallnacht should remind us all that evil must be 
confronted forcefully and the civilized world cannot watch 
idly while barbarism and mass murder are committed 
against innocent peoples: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) 
recognizes 
the 
70th 
anniversary 
of 
Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass; 
(2) pays tribute to the over 6,000,000 Jewish 
people who were killed during the Holocaust; and 
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(3) recommits the United States to continued 
vigilance against these kind of atrocities and urges 
the international community to fight against orga-
nized aggression directed at religious, ethnic, and 
other minority groups wherever it may occur. 
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