[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1435 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                    September 23, 2008.
Whereas November 9, 2008, through November 10, 2008, marks the 70th anniversary 
        of Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass;
Whereas during Kristallnacht, hundreds of synagogues in Germany and Austria were 
        burned and destroyed, businesses and homes were ransacked, scores of 
        innocent people were killed because they were Jews, and thousands of 
        others were arrested and sent to concentration camps;
Whereas Kristallnacht was sanctioned by the Nazi state to foment anti-Semitism 
        and terrorize Jewish citizens;
Whereas the shattered panes of glass that littered sidewalks, most of it coming 
        from the shop windows of Jewish stores, gave the pogrom its name, 
        Kristallnacht or ``Night of Broken Glass'';
Whereas Kristallnacht marked the Nazis' first centrally organized operation of 
        large-scale, anti-Jewish violence;
Whereas the lack of any serious diplomatic consequences from civilized nations 
        led the Governments of Germany and Austria to believe that further 
        atrocities would go unpunished;
Whereas Kristallnacht served as a prelude to the Second World War, to the death 
        of millions of innocent people, and to the mass murders and carnage on a 
        scale never before seen in human history;
Whereas the reign of the Nazi government marks one of the darkest periods in 
        civilized history; and
Whereas Kristallnacht should remind us all that evil must be confronted 
        forcefully and the civilized world cannot watch idly while barbarism and 
        mass murder are committed against innocent peoples: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, The Night of 
        Broken Glass;
            (2) pays tribute to the over 6,000,000 Jewish people who were killed 
        during the Holocaust; and
            (3) recommits the United States to continued vigilance against these 
        kind of atrocities and urges the international community to fight 
        against organized aggression directed at religious, ethnic, and other 
        minority groups wherever it may occur.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.