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You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me, Kirstie Reed.

Today I'm taking you back to November

1938 and an iconic event in the history of Nazi Germany, Crystal

Nacht, the night of broken Glass. I've been speaking to Nora Krug, a German writer and artist

who has researched what happened on that day in her hometown of Carl's Ruer.

On the 9th of November, 1938, members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party led attacks on June. In west of the country was no exception.

The two synagogues that existed were basically burned down.

Fires were set. Germans like in many other cities went and destroyed

the shops of Jewish shop owners. People were harassed in the streets beaten with umbrellas and sticks,

some were arrested and taken to a nearby concentration camp.

Extract from Derfuraura Carl's Ruiz local Nazi paper November 10th, 1938.

Spontaneous demonstrations could not be avoided.

During the course of yesterday morning a large

group of Jews were arrested and taken to the police station. This event was

accompanied by cheering from the angry crowd that filled the streets around Adolf Hitler Square.

Like many Germans of my generation I grew up with an immense sense of guilt, inherited guilt basically, but also a very abstract

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