Night Broken is the eighth book in the Mercy Thompson Series and the twentieth book written by Patricia Briggs. Elsbeth Rosenfeld talks about Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) - an organised nationwide attack on Jews - and compares it to a declaration of war. And I miss them everywhere. The term is permanently out of circulation for any other use whatsoever. This pogrom has come to be called Kristallnacht, "the Night of Broken Glass." Throughout Germany and Austria, the pogrom known as Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") rampaged. Of course, such terms reveal one thing in stark clarity - the lack of any sense of involvement or feeling of sympathy on the part of those who had stuck their heads in the sand before that violent night.Paul Lawrence Rose, Penn State University, agrees with the retention of the term "Kristallnacht" instead of "pogrom" or some other term and makes the following observation:The following sources should be of interest to the subscribers of this list. Moreover, what disturbed the German populace was less the sight of synagogues burning (fires take place all the time, after all -- it depends on the scale) than of the savage and wasteful vandalism that confronted bystanders everywhere, disrupting the clean and orderly streets (to say nothing of consumer convenience). 'Since the problem is mainly an economic one, it is from the economic angle it shall have to be tackled. flashcards on Quizlet. I changed my mind reluctantly when, during my research, I discovered Goering's intent to use this designation to ridicule this event.It is clear that the term Crystal Night serves to foster a vicious minimalizing of its memory, a discounting of grave reality: such cynical appellations function to reinterpret manslaughter and murder, arson, robbery, plunder, and massive property damage, transforming these into a glistening event marked by sparkle and gleam. Like everyone else here in the United States, for some 50 years I called those horrible days and nights Kristallnacht. Rath, was critically wounded and died two days later, on November 9.On the other side of this controversy are those who argue that the term should be retained. In July, 1938, a law was passed (effective January 1, 1939) requiring all Jews to carry identification cards. During this night 191 synagogues were set on fire.On October 28, 1938, the Gestapo rounded up the Polish Jews within Germany, put them on transports, and then dropped them off on the Polish side of the Poland-Germany border (near Posen). With little food, water, clothing, or shelter in the middle of winter, thousands of these people died."Kristallnacht" is a German word that consists of two parts: "Kristall" translates to "crystal" and refers to the look of broken glass and "Nacht" means "night." The accepted English translation is the "Night of Broken Glass."Among these Polish Jews were the parents of seventeen-year-old Hershl Grynszpan.