The French police had just arrested him for shooting Ernst vom Rath, the Third Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris. The assassination attempt took place on November 7, 1938 and vom Rath died ...

Vom Rath’s assassination was the immediate pretext for Kristallnacht in Germany, the Nazi pogrom in which some 90 Jews were killed, 1,300 synagogues were burned, and nearly 8,000 businesses ...

The Week, an information service issued by Claude Cockburn, declares that the French police have information that the German Government arranged for the killing of Ernst vom Rath, German Embassy ...

At the same time, a new account is shedding light on the murder of diplomat Ernst vom Rath, whose November 7, 1938 death Nazi leaders seized upon as pretext for the pogrom.

In life, Rath was not a Nazi and, in fact, opposed anti-Semitism. After Grynszpan shot the 3 rd Secretary to the German Consul in Paris several times, Vom Rath was seriously wounded but not yet on ...

Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop yesterday unveiled a plaque at the Foreign Ministry in memory of Ernst vom Rath, German Embassy secretary, killed by Herschel Grynszpan, 17-year-old Polish ...

It was on Nov. 6, 1938, when 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan bought a handgun in Paris. He then entered the German Embassy where he was met by a low-ranking German official, Ernst vom Rath. “Here ...

It was previously believed that Grynszpan, a Jew of Polish background who was 17 when he shot Ernst vom Rath in Paris on Nov. 7, 1938, had either been executed or died of an illness between 1942 ...