Winton became concerned that Nazi Germany could not be appeased. Indeed. on November 9 of that year. 1938. antiSemitic violence exploded across Germany and Austria. Because of the broken glass in the streets. that date is remembered as Kristallnacht. Soon afterwards. Mr. Winton was encouraged even by a friend at the British Embassy in Prague to forgo a ski vacation in the Alps and instead to visit what was left of Czechoslovakia in order to see the refugee camps filled with freezing Jewish families who had fled the Sudetenland. Mr. Speaker. he was deeply moved by the suffering he saw and was convinced immediate action had to be taken.