Overview
- Berlin held a memorial at Bernauer Straße attended by Governing Mayor Kai Wegner, alongside a new citywide Freedom Week and the World Liberty Congress.
- Federal Staatsminister for Culture Wolfram Weimer called the 1938 pogrom a barbaric crime and said antisemitism "rages again in the bright light of our present."
- President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was set to speak at Schloss Bellevue at noon, with reporting indicating an appeal to defend democracy against right-wing extremism.
- Police in Pasewalk opened an investigation after a Jewish memorial plaque was defaced overnight, asking the public for tips.
- Across the states, communities—including in Thuringia—held services, readings, concerts and wreath-layings to honor victims of the November pogroms.