Question

What happened on the night of November 9, 1938?

Answer 1

Hint: On 9–10 November 1938, a pogrom against Jews was carried out throughout Nazi Germany by SA paramilitary forces and civilians.

Complete answer:
Kristallnacht, or Crystal Night, occurred in Germany when bands of "people" and paramilitary Nazi groups launched violent attacks against Jews and their businesses (houses, shops, synagogues).
The assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a Polish Jew is said to have sparked

Kristallnacht. Many "rightfully angered" civilians and groups of militant paramilitary hooligans attacked Jews in a systematic manner, though officials and police stood by and did nothing. The tragically ironic name given to the incident was "the destruction of the glasses of Jewish shops and synagogues, as well as the destruction of windows in general." Kristallnacht was most likely the first large-scale and systematic phase in the Nazi regime's policy of persecution and extermination of Jews in Germany.

267 synagogues were desecrated by rioters across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. 30,000 Jewish men were detained and imprisoned in concentration camps, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed. No incident in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was as widely publicised as it was at the time, according to British historian Martin Gilbert, and the reports from foreign journalists employed in Germany sent shockwaves around the world.

Note: The composer John Zorn's 1993 album Kristallnacht was inspired by the events of Kristallnacht. The fourth track on the German power metal band Masterplan's debut album, Masterplan (2003), is an anti-Nazi song called "Crystal Night." In their Cologne dialect, the German band BAP released a song titled "Kristallnacht," which dealt with the emotions evoked by the Kristallnacht.