Pogrom Monument

The Pogrom Monument is located on Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz, in the centre of Innsbruck, and commemorates the 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, Hitler and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels met on November 9, 1938 at a comradeship evening in the 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 Third Reich to destroy Jewish shops, burn synagogues and confiscate valuables. The intervention of the police was prohibited.