Kristallnacht
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Kristallnacht was a state-organized pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany in November 1938, marked by widespread violence, destruction of synagogues and Jewish property, and mass arrests that signaled a major escalation toward the Holocaust.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kristallnacht canonical | 8 |
| Kristallnacht pogrom | 1 |
| Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938 | 1 |
| Night of Broken Glass | 1 |
| November pogroms | 1 |
| November pogroms of 1938 in Austria | 1 |
| Reichskristallnacht | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14136 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Kristallnacht Context triple: [Holocaust, precededBy, Kristallnacht]
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.
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WannseeConference
The Wannsee Conference was a 1942 meeting of senior Nazi officials in Berlin where they formalized plans for the systematic genocide of European Jews known as the Holocaust.
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Great Purge
The Great Purge was a brutal campaign of political repression, mass arrests, and executions in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s that targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Communist Party members, military leaders, and ordinary citizens.
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NurembergLaws
The Nuremberg Laws were a set of antisemitic racial laws enacted by Nazi Germany in 1935 that stripped Jews of citizenship and laid crucial legal groundwork for their systematic persecution during the Holocaust.
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E.
Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland was the 1939 German and Soviet military campaign that triggered the start of World War II in Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Kristallnacht Target entity description: Kristallnacht was a state-organized pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany in November 1938, marked by widespread violence, destruction of synagogues and Jewish property, and mass arrests that signaled a major escalation toward the Holocaust.
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A.
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.
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B.
Nuremberg Party Rally
The Nuremberg Party Rally was a massive annual propaganda event held by the Nazi Party in Nuremberg, showcasing its power, ideology, and militaristic pageantry.
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C.
WannseeConference
The Wannsee Conference was a 1942 meeting of senior Nazi officials in Berlin where they formalized plans for the systematic genocide of European Jews known as the Holocaust.
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D.
Great Purge
The Great Purge was a brutal campaign of political repression, mass arrests, and executions in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s that targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Communist Party members, military leaders, and ordinary citizens.
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E.
NurembergLaws
The Nuremberg Laws were a set of antisemitic racial laws enacted by Nazi Germany in 1935 that stripped Jews of citizenship and laid crucial legal groundwork for their systematic persecution during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antisemitic pogrom
ⓘ
crime against humanity ⓘ historical event ⓘ |
| cause | assassination of Ernst vom Rath ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn |
November 10
ⓘ
November 9 ⓘ |
| concentrationCampDestination |
Buchenwald
ⓘ
surface form:
Buchenwald concentration camp
Dachau ⓘ
surface form:
Dachau concentration camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp ⓘ |
| country | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| endDate | 1938-11-10 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
escalation toward the Holocaust
ⓘ
intensified Aryanization of Jewish property ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kristallnacht
ⓘ
surface form:
Night of Broken Glass
Kristallnacht ⓘ
surface form:
November pogroms
Kristallnacht ⓘ
surface form:
Reichskristallnacht
|
| historicalSignificance |
marked a transition from discrimination to widespread physical violence against Jews in Nazi Germany
ⓘ
signaled a major escalation in Nazi antisemitic policy ⓘ |
| ideology | antisemitism ⓘ |
| location |
Austria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Czechoslovakia ⓘ
surface form:
Sudetenland
|
| numberOfJewishBusinessesDamaged | thousands ⓘ |
| numberOfJewsArrested | about 30000 ⓘ |
| numberOfJewsDeportedToConcentrationCamps | about 30000 ⓘ |
| numberOfJewsKilled | at least 90 ⓘ |
| numberOfSynagoguesDestroyed | over 1000 ⓘ |
| orderedBy | Adolf Hitler ⓘ |
| organizedBy |
Nazi Party officials
ⓘ
surface form:
Nazi Party leadership
|
| partOf | persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| perpetrator |
German police forces
ⓘ
Hitler Youth ⓘ Nazi Germany ⓘ
surface form:
Nazi regime
SA ⓘ SS ⓘ |
| plannedBy | Joseph Goebbels ⓘ |
| precededBy |
NurembergLaws
ⓘ
surface form:
Nuremberg Laws
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| result |
destruction of Jewish religious life in many communities
ⓘ
increased Jewish emigration from Germany ⓘ mass arrests of Jewish men ⓘ |
| startDate | 1938-11-09 ⓘ |
| target |
Jewish homes
ⓘ
Jewish synagogues ⓘ Jewish-owned businesses ⓘ Jews ⓘ |
| usedAsPretext | assassination of Ernst vom Rath ⓘ |
| victim |
Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora
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surface form:
Austrian Jews
Czechoslovak Jews in annexed territories ⓘ German Jews ⓘ |
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Subject: Kristallnacht Description of subject: Kristallnacht was a state-organized pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany in November 1938, marked by widespread violence, destruction of synagogues and Jewish property, and mass arrests that signaled a major escalation toward the Holocaust.
Referenced by (14)
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