Agoal of the great peasants’ revolt was to stop the raids on monasteries and churches. to make germany part of the holy roman empire. to oppose the spread of protestantism in germany. to take wealth away from the roman catholic church.

the pogroms became known as kristallnacht, the "night of shattered glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. the morning after the pogroms 30,000 german jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished.

payments were made after the 1940s.

in the 1980s, a commission held investigations and made recommendations.