Kristallnachtt (Crystal Night) was the Germans' name for the night of Nov. 11, 1938. On that night Hitler's SS and the SA bullies tore through Berlin and broke the windows of nearly every Jewish shop in the city. Fourteen synagogues and 25 prayer rooms in what is now West Berlin were set afire. Last week, after years of fitful negotiation, the city of West Berlin settled for the damages. To the Jewish Restitution Successor Organizations and the Jewish Community will go 9,600,000 Deutsch marks ($2,280,000). The city also agreed to forgive payment of a $333,000 loan it had made the Jewish...
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