A portrait of Herschel Grynszpan from 7 November 1938. It was his shooting of the German Ernst vom Rath in Paris that gave the Nazis the excuse they needed to organise the nationwide pogrom of 9th November 1938, known after as Kristallnacht. hough the amount of damage and the number of people attacked was quite small, the fact that it was completely unopposed showed the Nazis that they could really start in on the Jews and, as such, is one of the major milestones on the way to The Holocaust.

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