David Frankfurter
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David Frankfurter was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Wilhelm Gustloff, the founder and leader of the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party, in February 1936 in Davos, Switzerland. He surrendered and
David Frankfurter in the British Mandate of Palestine, 1945
David Frankfurter garden in Ramat Gan.
Ernst vom Rath
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Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a German diplomat. He is mainly remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which was used as a pretext for Kristallnac
David Frankfurter
…the Nazi cause. His assassination was later used in propaganda, serving as pretext, along with Herschel Grynszpan's assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath, for the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom. While most people in Switzerland were sympathetic towards Frankfurter, the Swiss government prosecuted the case…
Vom Rath in 1934
Herschel Grynszpan in Paris just after his arrest (7 November 1938)
Ernst vom Rath's grave in Düsseldorf