Germans commemorate ‘Night of Broken Glass’ terror as antisemitism is on the rise again

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — People have come together across Germany to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht or the “Night of Broken Glass” in 1938 during which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s main Jewish leader spoke at an anniversary ceremony Thursday at a Berlin synagogue that was attacked with firebombs last month. The commemoration of the pogrom comes at a time when Germany is again seeing a sharp rise in antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.