History of Europe

An example of violence specifically against the Jews in Germany prior to World War 2?

Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, was a violent anti-Jewish campaign that unfolded over two days, primarily within Germany, the night of November 9–10, 1938. Orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister in Hitler's Nazi government, and executed mainly by the Sturmabteilung SA paramilitary and supported by various party branches and government, Kristallnacht marked a major turning point in Nazi persecution of Jews.