Germany news: Germany marks fateful date of November 9

Germany is commemorating the Nazi-led November pogroms 88 years ago. Events are also being held to mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. DW has more.

Commemorations are to be held nationwide to commemorate the Nazi pogroms of November 9-10, 1938 , when mobs went on an antisemitic rampage, killing at least 91 Jewish people, ransacking Jewish businesses and burning down hundreds of synagogues. The Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin is to have all the names of Jewish Nazi victims read out over the day in commemoration of the pogroms. Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be attending a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Ohel Jakob Main Synagogue in Munich, which was opened 68 years to the day after the main synagogue in the city was destroyed in the pogroms.

The pogroms are sometimes known as "Reichskristallnacht" or "Night of Broken Glass," but this name has fallen out of favor as underplaying the horrors of what happened.