He attended the congress of the Nazi Party in Nuremberg in September 1938 , breaking with the precedent established by his predecessor , William E. Dodd , who had refused to attend . In Dodd 's absence , the embassy 's chargé d'affaires had attended the previous year . President Roosevelt called Wilson home for urgent consultations in November 1938 following the anti-Jewish attacks of Kristallnacht and he never returned to Germany
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Hugh R. Wilson