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The incident was originally referred to as die Kristallnacht (literally "crystal night" or the "night of the broken glass"), alluding to the enormous number of shop windows broken that night.

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The prefix Reichs- (imperial) was later added (Reichskristallnacht) as a pun on the Nazis' propensity to add this prefix to various terms and titles like Reichsfьhrer-SS (Himmler) or Reichsmarschall (Gцring).

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Around the time of Kristallnacht, the Schutzstaffel newspaper "Das Schwarze Korps" called for a "destruction by swords and flames."

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In an article released for publication on the evening of November 11, Joseph Goebbels ascribed the events of Kristallnacht to the "healthy instincts" of the German people.

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Kristallnacht was the result of more than five years and nine months of discrimination and persecution.

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Kristallnacht IPA:  (literally Crystal night) was a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938.

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Many newspapers condemned Kristallnacht, with some comparing it to the murderous pogroms incited by Imperial Russia in the 1880s.

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Krypton (chemical symbol Kr, atomic number 36) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas.

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The reaction of non-Jewish Germans to Kristallnacht was varied.

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