Ernst vom Rath
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title:
Ernst vom Rath
text:
Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a member of the German nobility, a Nazi Party member, and German Foreign Office diplomat. He is mainly remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which provided a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass". Historians consider Kristallnacht the beginning of the Holocaust.
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German diplomat (1909–1938)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_vom_Rath
date created:
2005-05-22T05:42:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T07:28:56Z
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