Germany Commemorates Kristallnacht Pogroms 75th Anniversary

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 09: A local resident polishes a 'Stolperstein', or Stumbling Block, one of thousands of small cobblestone-sized plaques by artist Gunter Demnig dedicated to the memory of victims of the Holocaust and the antisemitic, racist, homophobic, and anti-Roma and Sinti climate of the Nazi years preceding it, on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the 'Night of Broken Glass' on November 9, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The word Kristallnacht is used to refer to a series of violent antisemitic pogroms that occurred prior to World War II on November 9-10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the occupied Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)