Kristallnacht, says this historian who directs the US Holocaust Memorial Museum\u2019s Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, was a pogrom, an escalation of violence against the Jewish population at a time when America was heavily isolationist: \u201cThere were a variety of factors that made people turn away from actively helping the Jews just as they really needed the help the most.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"