Kristallnacht

Also to referred to as the night of broken glass was series of attacks against Jews throughout Germany and parts of Austria on November 9–10, 1938. Jewish homes were ransacked, as were shops, towns and villages, as Storm Troopers and civilians destroyed buildings with sledgehammers.

Leaving the streets covered in pieces of smashed windows the origin of the name "Night of Broken Glass." Ninety-one Jews were killed, and 30,000 Jewish men, a quarter of all Jewish men in Germany — were taken to concentration camps.

The trigger of the attacks was the assassination of German diplomat Ernest Vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan a German-born Polish Jew in Paris, France.