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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by crystal nacht or

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the night of broken glass a name which applies both to a terrible night in [Broken glass falling]

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German history and to every single night that wild and Deborah's is over for [Debra chases man with plates]

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Scrabble yeah I played all right take a look at this image is very depressing

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image here's our question immediately following crystal nock depicted in the

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previous image the Nazi took which action toward German Jews and here the

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potential answers... right that's a good one alright spoiler

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alert none of those are the answer the Nazis were actually breaking the Jewish [Hitler appears in the flames]

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businesses windows because the windows were dirty and they simply wanted to [Hitler beside Jewish business window]

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replace them with new cleaner windows right then the Nazis and Jews danced

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merrily in the streets and ate sausages and latkes and lived happily ever after

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okay said obviously didn't happen don't put that in the essay people but can you [Lego man looking sad]

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really blame us for trying to inject a bit of junior anyway building off of our

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so absurd it can't possibly be true bit from a moment ago we can easily

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eliminate a from our list of Stan Chelan through there because repairing things

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wasn't exactly the Nazis way of doing it and on the topic of things that are so

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unfathomable it's almost funny to think about if subject matter wasn't so dark

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let's line up and knock down key as well in fact policies prior to this event had

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been mostly nonviolent so if anything this night of broken glass can be seen [Glass pane shatters]

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as what really kick-started the Nazis vicious and violent approach to things

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and while the reunion of formally separated families would have been nice

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that too belongs in our fantasy latke fields family musical that never was [Family prancing in a field]

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this really was the beginning of the one of the worst atrocities humanity has

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ever seen and it wasn't long before Jewish residents of Germany were [Jewish child holding arms up]

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arrested and forced into concentration camp yeah so basically the saddest most

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horrifying thing to ever happen don't you wish the latke musical thing was a

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thing now yeah well just we'll leave you with that thought instead [Latke standing on stage]

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