HERSCHEL GRYNSZPAN: THE FATE OF A FORGOTTEN ASSASSIN
Herschel Feibel Grynszpan assassinated Nazi foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath in Paris on 7 November 1938. The event provided the Nazi establishment with an occasion for Knstallnacht, a brutal pogrom launched against Jews and Jewish institutions inside the territory of the Third Reich on the ni...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1986
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1986, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 217-228 |
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| Summary: | Herschel Feibel Grynszpan assassinated Nazi foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath in Paris on 7 November 1938. The event provided the Nazi establishment with an occasion for Knstallnacht, a brutal pogrom launched against Jews and Jewish institutions inside the territory of the Third Reich on the night of 9–10 November 1938. Grynszpan was taken into French custody A number of post-war sources have contended that Grynszpan survived French and later Nazi captivity only to resume his Paris residence after the war and start a family. A search of relevant literature, however, fails to support this conclusion It is argued that Grynszpan probably perished while still in Nazi captivity. It is also argued that Grynszpan's present historical obscurity may reflect the painful and still unresolved status of the moral issues his action symbolized. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/1.2.217 |