November 9, 1938- November 10, 1938
Germans commemorate ‘Night of Broken Glass’ terror as antisemitism is on the rise again
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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”.