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Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
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Kristallnacht
1938 anti-Jewish pogroms in Nazi Germany
Kristallnacht (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈtalnaχt] lit. 'crystal night') or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (German: Novemberpogrome, pronounced [noˈvɛm.bɐ.poˌɡʁoːmə] ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung (SA)…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nazism
German fascist ideology
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Ernst vom Rath
German diplomat (1909–1938)
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 provided a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" on 9–10 November 1938. Historians consider…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Herschel Grynszpan
Polish Jew, confessed killer of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath
Herschel Feibel Grynszpan was a Polish-Jewish expatriate born and raised in Weimar Germany who shot and killed the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on 7 November 1938 in Paris. The Nazis used this assassination as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)