Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was 'ashamed and outraged' at a recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany, warning Berlin would not tolerate such anti-Jewish hatred as he marked the 85th anniversary of the Nazis' “Kristallnacht” pogrom.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wears a kippah as he arrives to attend a central commemoration ceremony for the 85th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass taking place in the Beth Zion Synagogue in Berlin, Germany, on November 9, 2023.
Scholz was speaking alongside Jewish leaders at a ceremony in a Berlin synagogue that was among 1,000 that were damaged or destroyed across Germany and Austria by Nazi mobs in the “Night of Broken Glass” . At least 91 Jews were murdered, about 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and some 30,000 Jewish men and boys arrested during the assaults which presaged the Holocaust, or Shoah, in which about six million Jews were killed.
The synagogue where Scholz was speaking was also attacked with Molotov cocktails in a surge of anti-Semitic incidents that followed the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and the subsequent Israeli retaliation.China's new yuan loans are expected to dip in October from the previous month because of seasonal factors, a Reuters poll showed, but the expected lending may exceed the year-earlier amount as the central bank sought to spur economic growth.
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