Novemberpogrom 1938 - Vertreibung, Attentat, Terror. Die Geschichte und Nachgeschichte von Herschel Grynszpan. (German)

On November 7,1938 Herschel Grynszpan, a young Jewish refugee, shot and killed Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat in Paris. The Nazi regime took this assassination as a pretext for unleashing extreme violence against hundreds of thousands of German Jews, their dwellings, shops, and synagogues, a process that culminated in the so-called 'Reichskristallnacht' of November 9, 1938. Grynszpan belonged to a Jewish family from Hanover that had been deported to Poland by the Nazi authorities days before - together with some 15,000 to 17,000 other German Jews. The article offers a detailed account of the situation stateless Jews faced at the end of the 1930s, in the context of a growing refugee crisis caused by Nazi racial policies. The article also describes Herschel Grynszpan's ordeal in French and German custody and the postwar European aftermath of his case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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