This report from our collection of eyewitness testimonies details the destruction of synagogues and the destruction and looting of Jewish businesses and homes in Leipzig.

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Arrests started in the early morning. Partly these were carried out in an orderly way by officers of the Kriminalpolizei, mostly with the collaboration of SA and SS men, but partly mobs of obviously unauthorised people came and dragged Jewish men out of their houses to take them to the police."

This report of the events of the November Pogrom in Düsseldorf was provided to the Library by a woman whose flat was looted by her own landlord. She also details the shooting of a coffee house owner.

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I add that in the meantime the owner of the café has died from his injuries.

It was absolutely ghastly to observe this. He ran to the Königsallee where he saw that the window pane of a Jewish fashion house was being smashed in. He heard the people cry, "Hang the Jews on the trees!".'