Herschel GrynszpanHerschel Feibel Grynszpan was a Polish Jewish refugee, born in Germany. His assassination of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on November 7th, 1938 in Paris provided the Nazis with the pretext for the Kristallnacht, the pogrom on November 9th-10th of1938. Grynszpan was seized by the Gestapo after the German invasion of France and brought to Germany.
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