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The New York Times' first article on Adolf Hitler, "Hitler New Power in Germany", written in 1922 (but still paywalled), referred to fears of a St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Was that the standard way of referring to an incident of racist violence back then, before we had Kristallnacht?

Doing an NGrams search for St. Bartholomew's doesn't have a sharp drop after Kristallnacht occurred.

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  • It's probably still the main term - I'm not familiar with Kristallnacht being used in a generic sense at all. – curiousdannii Mar 03 '16 at 10:59
  • @Andrew Grimm https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Bartholomew+Massacre%2CBartholomew+Day+Massacre%2CMassacre+of+St.+Bartholomew+&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=8&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CBartholomew%20Massacre%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBartholomew%20Day%20Massacre%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CMassacre%20of%20St.%20Bartholomew%3B%2Cc0 – Elian Mar 03 '16 at 12:29
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    I've never read/heard Kristallnacht used metaphorically. St. Barthlomew's Day a handful of times, though. – Hot Licks Mar 03 '16 at 12:55

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