They used the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a diplomat in the Paris embassy (who, ironically, was under Gestapo surveillance for his suspect political sympathies), to justify the pogrom, said ...

Herschel Grynszpan is better known than Schwartzbard. He assassinated German ambassador Ernst vom Rath in December 1938, in Paris as well. (And I thought Paris was supposed to be the city of love.) ...

A Nazi tank, donated to the German army in memory of Ernst vom Rath, counselor of the German embassy in Paris who was assassinated there in 1938 by a Polish-Jewish youth, Herschel Grynzpan, has ...

The spark that lit the powder keg was the murder of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath at the German embassy in Paris by the Jew Hershel Grynszpan. Grynszpan came from a family that had been deported ...

Meantime, Nazis themselves were worried. Their problem was how to collect the 1,000,000,000-mark fine for the killing in Paris of Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan.

This capital levy was decreed by Economic Four-Year Plan Commissioner Field Marshal Goring as “punishment” for the assassination in Paris of German Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by one ...

Although there is more to the back story on this, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan murdered Ernst vom Rath in reaction to the previous month’s Nazi Polenaktion, the “Polish Action” mass ...

As an act of revenge, Herschel Grynszpan—whose family had been deported to Poland—assassinated Nazi official Ernst vom Rath in Paris.

Art Influenced by comic books, Salvador Dali and Mark Rothko, a Russian-born Jewish artist embraces his contradictions Yury Kharchenko uses his art to address antisemitism, the Holocaust and Oct. 7 ...

Ernst vom Rath died of his wounds on 9 November 1938. Word of his death reached Hitler that evening while he was with several key members of the Nazi party at a dinner commemorating the 1923 Beer Hall ...