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Interesting that November 9th was also the date of Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch:
During the early years following the war, there was much instability in Germany, and challenges took place from both the far left and far right against the new democratic Weimar government.
The leader of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker’s Party), Adolf Hitler, marched with First World War General Erich Ludendorff and other party members into the centre of Munich to take control of the southern city.
The attempt was quashed by the police: 16 demonstrators and four policemen died, and Hitler was arrested and then imprisoned for five years. The NSDAP was then banned.
It was also the date of Kristallnacht:
On the night of November 9th, SA troops as well as German citizens carried out violent attacks on Jewish populations across Germany.
267 synagogues were destroyed in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland, and it is estimated that 7,500 German Jewish shops were laid waste to. At least 91 Jews were killed between November 9th and 10th.
On the following day, over 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps such as Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. The day marked the true beginning of state persecution of the Jewish race.
It was also the date that the Berlin Wall fell...
“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”
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