Germany marks 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht pogrom

Autumn leaves lie on the gravestone with a small Star of David during a commemoration of the November pogroms in 1938 by the Jewish Regional Community at the Jewish Cemetery in Erfurt, Germany (Martin Schutt/AP)

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier marked the 83rd anniversary of the anti-Jewish pogrom that was labelled Kristallnacht, the Night Of Broken Glass, when Nazis, among them many ordinary Germans, terrorised Jews throughout Germany and Austria.

In a speech in Berlin, Mr Steinmeier talked about November 9 1938, when the Nazis killed at least 91 people, vandalised around 7,500 Jewish businesses and burned more than 1,400 synagogues.