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The Coroner’s Report June 27, 2026 · Berlin

The Coordinated Anti-Jewish Pogrom Across Germany and Austria on the Night of 9-10 November 1938 That Destroyed 267 Synagogues and Killed Approximately 91 Jews

Nazi SA stormtroopers and civilians attacked Jewish synagogues, businesses, and homes across Germany and Austria on the night of 9-10 November 1938. 267 synagogues were burned. About 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. About 91 Jews were killed and 30,000 arrested. The German Jewish community was forced to pay a one-billion-mark fine for the damage.

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Munich

The 30 September 1938 Agreement at Munich That Ceded Czechoslovak Border Territories to Hitler in Exchange for His Pledge of Peace That Lasted Eleven Months

Britain, France, Italy, and Germany signed the Munich Agreement at 1:30 a.m. on 30 September 1938. Czechoslovakia was forced to cede the German-speaking Sudetenland border regions. Chamberlain returned to London claiming "peace for our time." Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939 and Poland on 1 September 1939.

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The Coroner’s Report June 27, 2026 · Munich Olympic Village

The Black September Attack on the Israeli Olympic Team at the Munich Olympics on 5-6 September 1972 That Killed Eleven Israeli Athletes

Eight members of the Palestinian Black September Organization entered the Israeli Olympic team quarters at the Munich Olympic Village before dawn on 5 September 1972. They killed two Israelis at the apartment and took nine others hostage. The hostage crisis ended with a failed German rescue operation at Fürstenfeldbruck airfield on the night of 5-6 September that killed all nine remaining hostages, five attackers, and one West German policeman.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Munich Institute of Hygiene

The German Hygienist Who Drank a Flask of Cholera to Prove Robert Koch Wrong

In October 1892 the Munich hygienist Max von Pettenkofer asked [Robert Koch's](/articles/robert-koch-cholera-1883) laboratory to send him a fresh culture of *Vibrio cholerae*. He drank approximately a billion organisms in a flask of beef broth, in front of academic witnesses, to demonstrate that the bacterium alone could not cause cholera. He survived the experiment. Nine years later he shot himself.

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