History glossary
pogrom
an organised or tolerated outbreak of violence against a minority community, historically often against Jews.
- Category
- Mass violence
- Region
- Global
- Date range
- Varies
What it means
An organised or tolerated outbreak of violence against a minority community, historically often against Jews. In this story, Kristallnacht was a Nazi-organised pogrom across Germany and Austria in November 1938.
Stories using this term
The Holocaust
From legal discrimination to genocide, the Holocaust traces twelve years of escalating persecution that killed six million Jews and millions of others across Nazi-occupied Europe.
Nazi Germany
From Weimar collapse to WWII, Nazi Germany imposed totalitarian rule, expansion, and genocide.
The Russian Revolution
From the 1905 crisis to the creation of the USSR, the Russian Revolution transformed imperial collapse into a new one-party socialist state.
