Example sentences for: kristallnacht

How can you use “kristallnacht” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Kept home from school, he becomes an unblinking observer of the world around him--his mother's adultery, the rise of Nazism, Kristallnacht , the invasion of Poland, the ravages of war, and after the war, the "economic miracle."

  • If The Tin Drum has a negative take on Nazism, it is expressed obliquely, through explosive bursts of irreverent language, and by dint of the fact that, in 1959, Grass talks about things such as Kristallnacht --something few other German writers did at the time, at least not so boldly.

  • "All sections of the population," Bankier further reports, "reacted with shock" to Kristallnacht.

  • Significantly, he adduces not a jot of counterevidence for his novel claim that only "some Germans" opposed Kristallnacht.

  • In assessing the popular German reaction to Nazi violence generally and Kristallnacht in particular, I quoted Goldhagen's authoritative scholarly source, Israeli historian David Bankier, as well as Kershaw:


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