Original sentence: Although violence against Jews had not been explicitly condoned by the authorities, there were cases of Jews being beaten or assaulted.Following the violence, police departments recorded a large number of suicides and rapes.The SA and Hitler Youth shattered the windows of about 7,500 Jewish stores and businesses, hence the appellation Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), and looted their goods.The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a seventeen-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.The rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudentenland
Edited sentence: Although violence against Jews had not been condoned by the authorities, there were cases of Jews being beaten or assaulted.The attacks were retaliation for the assassination of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a seventeen-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.The storefronts of about 7,500 Jewish stores and businesses were shattered, hence the appellation Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)