These Jews were isolated and forgotten in the town of Zbaszyn in the border region between Poland and Germany. Herschel already living illegally in Paris sought revenge against Germany by assassinating an official at the embassy. Vom Rath died on November 9, 1938, two days after the shooting. The Nazi Party leadership, assembled in Munich for the commemoration, chose to use the occasion as a pretext to launch a night of antisemitic attacks upon the Jewish population. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the primary instigator of the Kristallnacht pogrom, suggested to the Nazis that 'World Jewry' had conspired to commit the assassination. He announced that the progrom should occur rapidly and is not to be planned by the state and/or any
These Jews were isolated and forgotten in the town of Zbaszyn in the border region between Poland and Germany. Herschel already living illegally in Paris sought revenge against Germany by assassinating an official at the embassy. Vom Rath died on November 9, 1938, two days after the shooting. The Nazi Party leadership, assembled in Munich for the commemoration, chose to use the occasion as a pretext to launch a night of antisemitic attacks upon the Jewish population. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the primary instigator of the Kristallnacht pogrom, suggested to the Nazis that 'World Jewry' had conspired to commit the assassination. He announced that the progrom should occur rapidly and is not to be planned by the state and/or any