Kristallnacht en · NOUN
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”, literally “crystal night”).
Meanings
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(Nazism, historical) The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.
The Kristallnacht was a monumental development in Nazi anti-Jewish policy for several reasons. It was the single instance of large-scale, public, and organized physical violence against Jews inside Germany before the Second World War.
2009, Alan E. Steinweis, Kristallnacht 1938, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 4:Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump on Sunday, comparing the riot at the US Capitol which the president incited to Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 when Nazi thugs attacked Jewish Germans and their property, a harbinger of horrors to come.
2021 January 10, Martin Pengelly, “Schwarzenegger rebukes Trump and compares Capitol riot to Kristallnacht”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2021:This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now?
2014 January 24, Tom Perkins, “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2016:
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ca nit dels vidres trencats (Translations) · es Kristallnacht (Translations) · cmn 碎玻璃之夜 (Translations) · mr क्रिस्टालनाख्ट (Translations) · de Reichskristallnacht (Translations) · de Reichspogromnacht (Translations) · de Kristallnacht (Translations) · es noche de los cristales rotos (Translations) · hsb kristalna nóc (Translations) · pl noc kryształowa (Translations) · dsb kristalna noc (Translations) · hi क्रिस्टालनाख़्ट (Translations) · pt Noite dos Cristais (Translations) · ru Ночь разбитых витрин (Translations) · ja 水晶の夜 (Translations) · fr Nuit de Cristal (Translations) · cmn 水晶之夜 (Translations)