Across Germany, in schools, city halls, synagogues, churches and parliament, individuals were coming together Thursday to honor the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — or the “Night of Broken Glass” — in which the Nazis intimidated Jews throughout Germany and Austria.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s primary Jewish leader, Josef Schuster, were set to speak at an anniversary event at a Berlin synagogue that was assaulted with firebombs last month.
The celebration of the pogrom comes at a time when Germany is onceagain seeing a sharp increase in antisemitism following Hamas’ ruthless attack that eliminated 1,400 individuals in Isra