Fill in the Blanks THE NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASSOnline version The night of the broken glasses, history and key vocabulary. by Alfonso Poza 1 rape rapists Nazi businesses arrested 17 synagogues looted embassy demonstrations Jewish On November 7 , in Paris , a - year - old German Jewish refugee shot and killed the third secretary of the German . As revenge for this shooting , Joseph Goebbels , Nazi minister of propaganda , and Reinhard Heydrich , second in command of the SS after Heinrich Himmler , ordered " spontaneous " of protest against the citizens of Munich . They ordered the destruction of Jewish homes and . In Heydrich's report to Hermann Goering after Kristallnacht , the damage was assessed : " . . . 815 shops destroyed , 171 houses set on fire or destroyed . . . 119 were set on fire , and another 76 completely destroyed . . . 20 , 000 Jews were , 91 deaths were reported and those seriously injured were also numbered at 36 . . . " as many as 7 , 500 Jewish shops were , and there were several incidents of . This , in the ideology of Nazism , was worse than murder , because the racial laws forbade intercourse between Jews and gentiles . The were expelled from the Party and handed over to the police for prosecution .