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
Vom Rath in 1934
Herschel Grynszpan in Paris just after his arrest (7 November 1938)
Ernst vom Rath's grave in Düsseldorf
Kristallnacht
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Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces along with s
Ernst vom Rath
…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 Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" on 9–10 November 1938. Historians consider Kristallnacht the beginning of the Holocaust. Vom Rath was born in Frankfurt…
Partially destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue in Berlin
Polish Jews expelled from Germany in late October 1938
Herschel Grynszpan, 7 November 1938