The Assassination of Ernst vom Rath

 What lead up to the Assassination of 

Ernst vom Rath

                                                    
                 The Assassin Herschel Grynszpan                                The Victim Ernst vom Rath

    The assassination of the Nazi diplomate to France, Ernst Vom Rath, by Herschel Grynszpan would be based on retaliation against a government due to its treatment of an ethnic population. Hitler took power in 1933 and immediately ousted opposing factions in the German government. His ability to do this was due to the powers he gained when the Nazi party staged the burning of the Reichstag and successfully blamed it on socialist and communist elements in Germany. Hitler would use this newfound power to start systematic campaigns of violence against the German Jewish population. The early campaigns would range from boycotting, protesting, and destroying Jewish businesses, forcing Jewish people to wear public insignias, and ousting them from any government positions.

    By June of 1938, 1,500 Jewish people were in concentration camps, and during the following October, 15,000 Jewish people were expelled from Germany into Poland. Herschel Grynszpan would go to the Nazi embassy following this October expulsion and exact revenge for this expulsion and the treatment of Jewish people in Germany by shooting Rath.

                                            How the assassination happened.


Sources for Pictures
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1988-078-08,_Herschel_Feibel_Grynszpan.jpg
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst-vom-Rath.jpg

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