November 9-10, 1938
In a night that came to be known as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and homes, and beat and murdered Jewish men, women, and children across Germany and Austria.
November 9, 1989
The Berlin Wall, built to stop the exodus from the Communist-controlled East in 1961, was opened in response to nonviolent popular action.
