Ernst Vom Rath

Ernst Vom Rath

Ernst Eduard vom Rath (3 June 1909–9 November 1938) was a German diplomat, remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan. The assassination triggered Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass".

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