82 years ago #OnThisDay the #Kristallnacht pogrom took place. Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked across Germany and Austria and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops throughout the night of the 9-10 November.

Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish institutions were attacked and destroyed. SA and Hitler Youth members shattered the shop windows of an estimated 7,500 Jewish-owned commercial establishments and looted them. Cemeteries became a particular object of desecration in many regions.

The pogrom was especially destructive in Berlin and Vienna, the two largest Jewish communities in these areas.

The SS and the Gestapo, following Heydrich's instructions, arrested up to 30,000 Jewish men and transferred most of them from local prisons to Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and other concentration camps.

Kristallnacht marks the first instance where the Nazi regime incarcerated Jews on a large scale because of their ethnicity. While most were released on the condition that they started to emigrate, hundreds died in the camps as a result of the treatment they went through.