Ernst vom Rath

He happened to be in Paris.

In Paris, because he was so frustrated about this, he went and he got a gun and he walked into the German embassy and he shot an ambassador named Ernst von Rath.

He shoots the ambassador.

Hitler says, aha, look, the Jews are trying to destroy us all.

Marking the anniversary of Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, orders were sent out around 1.20 a.m. to capitalize on an event in Paris.

Two days earlier, a young Jewish man, Herschel Grinspan, had shot a German embassy official, Ernst von Rath, whose wounds resulted in his death.

the German government used Greenspan's act as a cover.

They orchestrated attacks, then claimed they had been the result of spontaneous public outrage.