Ernst vom Rath

Born

June 3, 1909

Died

November 9, 1938 (aged 29)

Known as

politician, diplomat, jurist

Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a German diplomat. He is mainly remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which was used as a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" on 9–10 November 1938. Historians consider Kristallnacht the beginning of the Holocaust.

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