- Headline
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Ernest [sic] Vom Rath Dies Of Wounds
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, November 9, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
This database includes 5,092 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Nov. 9—(AP)—Ernst vom Rath, secretary of the German embassy, died today from gunshot wounds inflicted in the embassy Monday by a 17-year-old Polish Jew.
In spite of four blood transfusions made under direction of Adolf Hitler's personal physicians, sent from Germany by the fuehrer, the 32-year-old Vom Rath succumbed in the Paris Hospital to which he was taken after the shooting.
His parents arrived just before he died.
His assailant, Herschel Grynszpan, is held by the Paris police. He said he shot Vom Rath to avenge Polish Jews recently expelled from Germany. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Katherine V.
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Bibliography
Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Pehle, Walter H., ed. November 1938: From "Reichskristallnacht" to Genocide. New York: Berg, 1991.
Read, Anthony. Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror. New York: Times Books, 1989.
Schwab, Gerald. The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: Praeger, 1990.
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