Last week Germany and Israel marked 70 years since «Kristallnacht» (Crystal Night), Jewish pogroms in Nazi Germany, which served as a prelude to the Catastrophe of European Jews (the Holocaust). On the night of 9-10 November 1938 Jewish property was destroyed, and thousands of synagogues were demolished and set on fire by the Nazis. About a hundred Jews were murdered and thousands were arrested or deported to concentration camps. The bloody pogroms received the name «Crystal Night» or «The Night of Broken Glass» for the countless broken windows of Jewish shops and houses covering the streets of German cities.