Crystal Night

Crystal Night was a government-sponsored wave of rioting against Jews in Germany on November 9-10, 1938, which left 91 Jews dead, 25,000 to 30,000 arrested and put in concentration camps, and 267 synagogues destroyed. It began after a young Jew whose parents had been deported to Poland shot and killed an official at the German Foreign Office. It eventually led to the Holocaust.

Crystal Night also started a shift in American public opinion from isolationism to more of a sympathetic outlook toward the Ashkenazi Jews.