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    Ernst Vom Rath

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    According to the German government, Kristallnacht, or crystal night, came about because of an event that occurred in Paris on November 7, 1938. This event being the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat, by a young Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan. Herschel’s reasons for murdering Ernst vom Rath were that his parents had been among the thousands of Polish Jews forced out of Germany who were not allowed into Poland and that he wanted to bring worldwide attention to the terrible treatment of European Jews with his actions. His plan did not work out as he had hoped, however. His assassination of Ernst vom Rath actually worsened the treatment of Jews in Germany as it gave the German government an excuse to orchestrate Kristallnacht without having to take blame for it since the government could say that citizens actually caused Kristallnacht on their own out of outrage at the murder.…

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    On November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish teenager who had been living in Paris after fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany, shot Nazi Ernst vom Rath, the third secretary of the German embassy in Paris. Grynszpan made his motive for killing vom Rath clear. Referencing his parents forced removal from Germany, he stated: “I acted because of love for my parents and for my people, who were subjected unjustly to outrageous treatment”. Within hours of Vom Rath’s assassination, the…

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    Curtis Sittenfeld was only seven years old when the Holocaust first began to leave its destructive mark on history. Now a father, grandfather, accomplished businessman and war veteran, Sittenfeld accounts his harrowing past on how he became a Holocaust survivor. On November 9th, 1938, violence broke out across the Jewish population. This came after Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish student studying in France, was informed his parents were detained and tortured by German officials. Seething with…

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    Kristallnacht Analysis

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    into opposing factions. (“Polarisation”) THE NAME KRISTALLNACHT Kristallnacht was given its name due to the shattered and broken glass strewn about the streets of Germany. This glass came from the pillaged and destroyed synagogues, homes and Jewish owned businesses that were torn apart. ERNST VOM RATH The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilungen) and Hitler Youth. In its aftermath, German officials announced that Kristallnacht…

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    It involved a war against Jewish people and Germans. Kristallnacht all started when a 17-year-old Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan was enraged about his parents getting deported. When he heard about this, he wrote a note to his uncle asking for forgiveness for what he was about to do. After he wrote and sent that note, he came up with a plan. A few days later on November 7th Herschel shot Ernst Vom Rath. Both of these people were not well known in the world as Rath was just the Third…

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    have no choice on whether or not it would happen? During the Holocaust, in the month of November, Herschel Grynszpan decided to take action because dire news had reached him. He had learned that his family, along with many other Polish Jews, were to be deported to concentration camps. His choice of action created a catalyst that would incur a night of broken dreams. That night has come to be known as Kristallnacht, which translates to, “Night of Krystal”(Kristallnacht). Herschel Grynszpan was a…

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    the date of a national action to terrorize the Jewish community that left Jewish-owned businesses and homes ablaze and utterly demolished. German officials declared that Kristallnacht happened upon the utmost spontaneous outburst of public sentiment acting in accordance with a response to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath. A 17 year old Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, shot the diplomat on November 7, 1938. Earlier, German authorities had removed thousands of Polish Jews from Polish…

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    On November 7th, 1938 Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, shot Ernst Vom Rath, a Nazi German diplomat, in Paris after finding out that his parents living in Poland had been exiled by the Nazis. They had been exiled from Poland to Hanover, Germany, Poland was where he was born and grew up and his family had lived many years. Nazis were a German party Adolf Hitler created, that was known as cruel and ruthless. Jews were segregated and had their businesses boycotted, meaning people…

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    Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, suggested that the Jews had conspired in the attack on vom Rath. Nazi officials sent out commands to regional officers, who spread the word to their supporters. On the night of November 9, 1938, Nazi officials, stormtroopers, and Hitler Youth members would dress in civilian clothes and destroy Jewish lives. They were not to put Aryan life in danger, and they were to salvage records from synagogues. The Nazis did not claim an official…

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    Good Afternoon, The Night Of Broken Glass, also referred to as Kristallnacht, meaning “Crystal Night”, occured in Nazi Germany on November 9th to November 10th, 1938, it was the consequence of the assassination of the third secretary of the German Embassy staff Ernst Vom Rath executed by the Polish-Jew teenager Herschel Grynszpan as pictured in source 2, this is a portrait taken after his arrest. This assassination was a contributing and foreshadowing factor to the Holocaust and it sparked…

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