Ernst Eduard vomRath (3 June 1909 – 9 November 1938) was a German 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…
Ernst Eduard vomRath (3 June 1909–9 November 1938) was a German diplomat, remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, which provided the pretext for Kristallnacht, (The Night of Broken Glass)
Why say that ErnstvomRath's brother was convicted of 'homosexual offenses' without explaining that this was on the Russian front at a time when the Grynszpan trial was being planned?
Other articles where ErnstvomRath is discussed: Kristallnacht: …7 of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a Polish-Jewish student, Herschel Grynszpan. News of Rath’s death on November 9 reached Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany, where he…