Kristallnacht
Meanings
noun
- The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.
Word forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”, literally “crystal night”).
Synonyms
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