Kristallnacht 75th Anniversary: Merkel Warns of Anti-Semitism as Nazi Pogrom Anniversary Approaches

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has alerted Germany's citizens on the dangers of anti-Semitism a week before the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which was a series of organised massacres carried out against German Jews in 1938. In her weekly podcast, Merkel described the events of Kristallnacht as "one of the darkest moments in German history", and requested all Germans not to tolerate any form of anti-Semitism towards the 200,000 Jews currently residing in Germany today.