Pogrom Monument
The Pogrom Monument () is located on Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz, in the centre of Innsbruck, and commemorates the Kristallnacht, November pogroms of 1938, during which the Innsbruck citizens Josef Adler, Wilhelm Bauer, Richard Berger and Richard Graubart were murdered. The memorial was erected in 1997. November pogrom in Innsbruck Following the assassination attempt on the German legal consul Ernst vom Rath in Paris, perpetrated by Herschel Grynszpan, Adolf Hitler, Hitler and Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels met on November 9, 1938, at a comradeship evening in the Old Town Hall, Munich, Old Town Hall of Munich. Afterwards Hitler left the hall and Goebbels gave a speech in which he made public the death of von Raths. The "spiteful, anti-Semitic speech" culminated "in an appeal for revenge and retaliation". The Gauleiter and SA leaders present thereupon issued orders throughout the Nazi Germany, Third Reich to destroy ...
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