The Terrible True Story Of Kristallnacht Sean Gallup/Getty Images
By Debra Kelly/Jan. 20, 2021 3:19 pm EDT/Updated: March 22, 2021 10:06 am EDT
Hindsight, it s said, is 20/20, and it s with the benefit of hindsight that people can look back at history to see just where things started to take a serious turn oftentimes, for the worse.
One of those days where events were set on a road with very few exits was Nov. 9, 1938. That s the night that would come to be known as Kristallnacht, which translates to Night of Broken Glass. That s also the night, says History, that the world and particularly, Europe s Jewish population realized just how serious Adolf Hitler was. It wasn t about rules and restrictions anymore, it was about violence.