No, not at all. People who disrespect the pain of others for no purpose but their own pleasure and who continue to make it worse -- as you have -- are in the wrong. Oh, and people who continue to insult the integrity of others with persistent apologies meant to silence are even more wrong. Rowling never called out the names of the Holocaust and its perpetrators and its tragedies. She used the parallels delicately and with care, drawing attention to not just past prejudice and disaster but to modern catastrophes. At no point did she cross the line and appropriate an actual event in human history for her own ends.

If you REALLY look at it, pull off the hatred glasses and really look at it, the only thing we're guilty of is using the same name. We don't have hitler running around. We haven't used the name of any victims or locations. Everything has been paralleled as well. It is only a name. We are not attacking the jews in the game. We are not making fun of the holocaust, the words "Kristallnacht" mean "Crystal Night" in German, and is generally referred to the two nights of that particular movement, which is similar in sense and style to what is going on in our game.

A lot of this backlash would make a lot more sense if we had taken the event and used it, the people and the location, the exact time and dates. But we haven't. They're just words in German that have significant meaning.

I don't have any 'hatred glasses' on. The reasons you think you're justified in using this name are exactly why this is so offensive and ridiculous. You are appropriating this event for fun, when you could have made up any number of other names for your game. Your game doesn't need this name except that it was fun and cool to use it.

If this were a recreationist RPG that was revisiting the era, it might be questionable, but nothing to this degree. And, I think you would find that most people who have genuine interest in that time period wouldn't dare use the name because they are fully aware of the impact it has on people in the here and now. The only people other than YOU (in the general sense of everyone in the game) who would use it with such disrespect are white supremacists or Nazi sympathizers.

You are appropriating (that means taking over, without permission or justification) the name of an event that was terrible and horrible and you (every one of you in the game) are doing it FOR FUN. And, you all (because even the silent ones among you are complicit in this action) are insulting the people that you are hurting, on top of causing them pain. That is wrong.