The total number of victims is estimated at about 22,000. The victims were
executed in the Katyn forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and
elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during
the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, and
the rest were arrested Polish Intellegentsia who the Soviets considered to be
"intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers,
officials and priests"
Kristallnacht was an important event as it is considered the beginning of the holocaust. Throughout Germany and Austria, a pogrom was initiated by the Nazis. Synagogues were destroyed and Jewish shops were looted and ransacked. 91 Jews were killed and thousands of Jewish men were taken to concentration camps. This event became known as the November Pogrom or Kristallnacht.
It was acts passed by the radical Republicans in 1867. These acts separated the south and the north
She developed a new strategy to pursue women's voting rights
Hi geny5,
Your Question:
In one complete paragraph explain the significance of that artifact or location to its related period.
This artifact that you need to describe is the: St. Marys Church in Wittenberg.
Answer:
A young theologian named Martin Luther, built this church in the 1500's to start preaching all over Whittenburg. It has the significance that it was part of the Reformation era. The church shows the citenzy and religious for the reformation of the church. It was the first church to preach in German. The church still stands today.
