London, Oct. 22 : Before becoming the undisputed dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler marched his henchmen onto the streets of Munich to perpetrate the atrocity that became known as Kristallnact.
Newly deciphered passages from the diaries of Josef Goebbels show that on the night of November 9, 1938, the Fuhrer led Nazis to destroy an important synagogue, and deliberately throwing a match into a tinderbox.
That Nazi-era pogrom was prompted by the murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938 by Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan.
The pogrom has gone down in history as the “Night of the Broken Glass”.