Timeline Wednesday 9 November 1938

Events on Wednesday 9 November 1938 3

• 1889 – 1938 Vasily Blyukher (1889-1938) Died 9 November 1938, aged 48 Blyukher was a Marshal of the Soviet Union and commander in the Far East. He was arrested after the Lake Khasan battle and died under NKVD interrogation.
• 1938 Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass A violent pogrom against Jews across Nazi Germany, signaling an escalation in anti-Semitic persecution.
• 1938 Kristallnacht Nationwide pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria Using the shooting of the diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as a pretext, Nazi paramilitaries and civilians burned synagogues and wrecked Jewish shops and homes across the Reich. About 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps. Afterwards the Jewish community was fined one billion Reichsmarks.