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)
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…