After the fall of France in June 1940, Grynszpan was sent to Germany so that he could be questioned by the Gestapo. It marked the turning point from persecution to violence, murder, and concentration camps.Īs for Grynszpan, he was arrested and held by the French. Historians widely regard the Kristallnacht as the start of the Holocaust. That speech led directly to the Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” On the night of the speech, throughout Germany, 200 synagogues were destroyed, Jewish businesses were ransacked, 100 Jewish people were killed, and over 30,000 men were arrested for being Jewish, and then shipped off to concentration camps. On the day he died, Joseph Goebbels gave a speech and used the assassination as proof of how dangerous Jewish people were. He walked up to Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath and shot him five times. On November 7, 1938, he purchased a gun and a box of ammunition and then he went to the German Embassy. He couldn’t find work because he wasn’t a legal citizen and he was worried that if he did get a job, it would draw too much attention and he would be sent back to Germany. But they needed a reason to move on to the next phase and that reason would come in 1938.ġ7-year-old Herschel Grynszpan was a German-born Jew and after the rise of the Nazi party, he moved to France where he lived in exile. Of course, they had bigger plans for the Jews notably, they wanted to systematically exterminate them.
One of the pillars of the Nazi platform was to scapegoat and persecute the Jewish people.
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