Chapter 14: Night of Broken Glass

The peaceful evening at Café Mozart shatters when Friedrich, David, and Greta witness the first acts of Kristallnacht erupting through Hamburg's Jewish quarter. What they observe isn't random violence but a methodical destruction carried out by familiar faces—including members of their own Mormon congregation. When David spots smoke rising from his father's beloved bookshop, our trio plunges into the chaos despite Friedrich's warnings.

Inside the burning bookshop, a moment of violent confrontation with a Nazi attacker changes everything, while SS Officer Erich Krause's pursuit turns their escape into a desperate race through burning streets. As they flee with David's father through a city consuming itself, they must navigate not just physical danger but the moral collapse of a society they once trusted. The night culminates in Emma Weber's hidden cellar, where family bonds long fractured by religious differences begin to heal in the face of shared survival.

Don't miss this pivotal episode that forces our characters to confront the true nature of institutional betrayal and marks their point of no return—transforming them from cautious helpers into determined resistors against a machinery of hate that has revealed itself in all its terrifying precision.