Ernst vom Rath

mainly non-violent and mild. German officials said that Kristallnacht “erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment in response to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath” (USHMM). Vom Rath was a German embassy official who was stationed in Paris. On November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, shot Ernst vom Rath. The reason of him doing this is because a few days earlier, Grynszpan’s parents were among the group of Jews

speech, religion, expression and others. Soon enough, this let to the Night of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht. On the seventh of November, 1938 a German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, was shot by a Polish Jew and illegal immigrant in Paris’ German embassy as an act of vengeance for his parents and siblings’ removal from Germany. Vom Rath died on November 9th, 1938. The government used this as propaganda against the Jews. The effect was detrimental to the German Jews, as 7,500 Jewish run shops were assaulted

Pogrom is a Russian word meaning to wreak havoc or to demolish violently. German officials said that Kristallnacht was a spontaneous outburst of violence in regard to the assassination of Ernst von Rath. Two days before Kristallnacht occurred, a 17 year old Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan shot Ernst vom Rath. On the ninth and the tenth, the rioters were told to not endanger non-Jewish German property or life. They were also told to give any foreigners violence. They specifically wanted healthy

rather a conspiracy that all the Jews were against Germany ("The Night of Broken Glass" 3). Two days after Rath dies, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda gives a speech in the town on Munich because Adolfo Hitler was unable to ("The Night of Broken Glass" 1). In his speech, Goebbels gave the orders to have "spontaneous demonstrations" to get revenge on the Jews for killing Rath ("The Night of Broken Glass" 2). The blueprint for the "spontaneous demonstrations" was very simple. An order

situation and how it was being handled by both the Germans and the Polish, on November 7th Grynszpan walked into the German Embassy in Paris and fatally wounded a German official named Ernst vom Rath. On November 8th, following the murder of Ernst vom Rath, attacks and destructions of Jewish property already had started. Vom Rath’s death, declared on November 9th, gave the Nazi regime a perfect reason to organize a pogrom. On November 9th and 10th, 1938 the Nazi’s staged a monstrous anti-Jewish

Broken Glass or Kristallnacht is the event that happened on November 7, 1938 when a man by the name Herschel Grynszpan shot a man by the name of Ernst Rath. In the article This Day In History it states, “On November 7, in Paris, a 17-year-old German Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, shot and killed the third secretary of the German embassy, Ernst vom Rath.” Now this peace of the article show that Herschel shot

A Righteous Gentile was a non Jewish person who risked their life to save jews during the Holocaust and Edmond Bauduin was one of these people. Despite the fact that they would be killed if found for helping jews and defying the Nazi party and Hitler who became dictator in Germany, Edmond Bauduin and many other Righteous Gentiles risked their life to save others. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and claimed that it was the jews fault that germany was bankrupt and in poverty. Then

the 17-year-old Polish Jew learned that the Nazis had exiled his parents from Germany, where Herschel had been born and his family had lived for years; as retaliation, on November 7, 1938, the agitated young man fatally shot Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat (Staff). Rath died two days later from his wounds, and Hitler attended his funeral (Staff). This event was dramatized and lead to an attack on Jews and their property in Germany, annexed Austria, and parts of Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia of

It happened because of the killing of a German officer, Ernst vom Rath by for a Polish Jew called Herschel Gynszpan (Moeller 105). I witnessed the frightful attack by the Nazis on places related to the Jews such as synagogues, their religious sites, and cemeteries (Bergen “Chapter 5”). All their shops’ windows had

was relocated by the Nazis to Poland. He decided that he was going to assassinate the German ambassador. He went to the embassy, but he was not able to locate his target. So he tried to assassinate Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath instead. Ironically, Rath was an anti-Nazi. Even though Rath was only a minor official, Hitler used propaganda to convince people that the act was an international conspiracy by Jews everywhere. Hitler made it seem as though Jews were attacking Germany itself. This is what