Night of Broken Glass

A memorial on a street corner two blocks from where we are staying.  It reminds Austrians of the shame from "The Night of Broken Glass" in the years of semitism before World War 2 during the time under the Nazi regime.

For context...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007697

On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. In fact, German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by. The pogroms became known as Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets.
The morning after the pogroms 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished.