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  Rath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rath Yatra or Ratha Yatra, a festival in Orissa state, India from rath meaning chariot.
Rath, Bedburg, a subdivision of Bedburg municipality, Germany
Rath, Nörvenich, a subdivision of Nörvenich municipality, Germany
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 Kristallnacht   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Kristallnacht, also known as Reichskristallnacht or, in English, The Night of Broken Glass, involved a massive pogrom against Jewish citizens throughout Germany in the night from November 9 to November 10, 1938.
On November 7, 1938, Ernst vom Rath, secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, was shot dead by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish German who had fled to France.
The Nazis used vom Rath's assassination as an excuse for launching a pogrom against Jewish inhabitants throughout the country.
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 THE HOLOCAUST PROJECT - Selected Biographies - G
GRYNSZPAN, HIRSHEL (born 1921) The seventeen-year-old Polish Jew, born in Hanover, Germany, who shot Ernst von Rath, the legation secretary at the German Embassy in Paris, on November 7, 1938.
Von Rath died on November 9, 1938, and the Germans quickly exploited his assassination to launch Kristallnacht, the notorious "Night of Broken Glass" pogrom.
A show trial was planned for May 1942, but was abruptly cancelled after rumors and an anonymous letter surfaced which claimed that von Rath had engaged in a protracted, homosexual relationship with Grynszpan.
www.humanitas-international.org /holocaust/bios_g.htm   (766 words)

  
 Chapter Excerpt: The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Two days earlier, Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew, assassinated Ernst von Rath, a minor diplomat at the German embassy in Paris, in retaliation for the deportation of Grynszpan's family and 23,000 other Jews from Germany to Poland.
Grynszpan's intended target had been the German ambassador to Paris, but von Rath attempted to intervene and was shot instead.
Ironically, von Rath had openly criticized Nazi anti-Semitic attitudes and was scheduled for disciplinary action by the Gestapo.
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 1938: Religion - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
At once the German press bristled with violent outbursts against the Jews, and demands were made that all the Jews of Germany be compelled to bear the consequences for this one individual act.
When Von Rath died several days later, there occurred simultaneously throughout the whole of Germany, undoubtedly according to a prearranged plan of the Nazi regime, violent anti-Jewish riots.
In addition, the Jewish storekeepers were ordered to pay for the repairing of their stores, which were then to be 'Aryanized' and removed from the hands of the Jews without compensation; sums thus paid by Jewish shopkeepers for such repairs were to be deducted from their pro-rata share of the enforced levy.
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The Attitude of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists toward the Jews\par}} {\pard\li-89\ri-359{\plain\f4\fs20\cf2 Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of defeated, truncated, and starving Germany on January 30, 1933, by President Paul von Hindenburg.
This was on the morning of November 7, 1938, and von Rath died forty-eight hours later.\par}} {\pard\qj\li-89\ri-360{\plain\f4\fs20\cf2 This situation was exploited by Goebbels to increase the severity of German policy toward the German Jews.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the SID (SS Security Service) chief, was on trial as main defendant for the SS because of the suicide of Himmler, just as Fritzsche was representing Goebbels for the same reason.
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 This Month in Jewish History: November
Von Rath was shot on the 7th of November and died on the 9th.
1938: Kristallnacht - Goebbels called von Rath's murder "a Jewish conspiracy" and a nation-wide pogrom was organized by the German government.
Fifty thousand Jews were arrested and taken to concentration camps; five hundred synagogues were destroyed, and the Jewish community was forced to pay one billion reichmarks ($4,000,000) for the damage.
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 Shofar FTP Archives: places/germany/kristallnacht/documents.005
Events were then precipitated by an unforeseen incident, the immediate repercussions of which were somewhat embarrassing to the regime, though, as with the Reichstag Fire, it took full advantage of the situation.
On 7 November 1938, Ernst von Rath, a minor official in the German Embassy in Paris, was shot dead by a young Polish Jew named Herschel Gru"nspan [Grynszpan].
That evening, Goebbels addressed a gathering of Party leaders in Munich and, as was later revealed in a report of the Party's Supreme Court, he made it clear that antisemitic riots would not be dis- couraged by the authorities.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/places/germany/ftp.py?places/germany/kristallnacht/documents.005   (1852 words)

  
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June 30 In a massive "blood purge," known as "the Night of the Long Knives,"Hitler arranged for the Gestapo to murder Ernst Roehm, the leader of Germany's political left and head of the SA.
November 7 In Paris a teenaged Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, assassinated Ernst von Rath, Third Secretary of the German Embassy.
November 9 Kristallnacht, the "Night ofBroken Glass." Following the death of Ernst von Rath, and in retribution against Grynszpan's act, Goebbels instigated acts of violence against Jews throughout Berlin.
www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/holokron.html   (2027 words)

  
 The Myth of the Six Million -- Tension and Crisis of 1938
Grynszpan decided to murder German Ambassador Welezeck in Paris, but instead he fired his revolver casually at Embassy Counsellor Ernst von Rath after he failed to encounter Welczeek.
This was on the morning of November 7, 1938, and von Rath died forty-eight hours later.
This situation was exploited by Goebbels to increase the severity of German policy toward the German Jews.
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 The New American - A Post-Oklahoma Kristallnacht - May 29, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Grynszpan's target was Count Johannes von Welczeck, the German ambassador; the assassination was supposedly intended as retaliation for the imprisonment of Grynszpan's family in a concentration camp.
Ironically, at the time of his death von Rath was under investigation for his alleged opposition to the anti-Semitic policies of the National Socialist government.
Early in the National Socialist period, Brown Shirt leader Ernst Roehm frequently attacked "published bigotry," particularly that emanating from conservative Christian opponents of the regime.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1995/vo11no11/vo11no11_kristallnacht.htm   (2534 words)

  
 Carlos Magana, "College Textbooks and the Holocaust, 1952-1978"
Meanwhile, the position of the Jews in Germany had further deteriorated and 1938 saw yet another manifestation of the depths to which the German leaders and their followers had sunk… towards the end of October the first mass expulsion of the Polish Jews was begun.
The murder of vom Rath, a member of the German embassy in Paris, by a young Polish Jew, provided the excuse for a barbarous attack on Jews throughout Germany, which shocked the western world.
A string of similar anti-Semitic decrees followed upon the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a councilor at the German legation in Paris, by Hershel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew, on November 9, 1938.
www.history.ucsb.edu /faculty/marcuse/classes/133p/133p04papers/CMaganaTextbooks046.htm   (6875 words)

  
 Kristallnacht
  He went to the German Embassy in Paris and shot German Secretary Ernst von Rath on November 7, 1938.
Hitler’s Chief of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, used Ernst von Rath’s death as an excuse to begin a program against Jews.
  A fine of one billion marks was levied for the death of Ernst von Rath.
www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us /schools/rjh/marneyg/03_holocaust-projects/03_goolsby_kristallnacht.htm   (945 words)

  
 Mideast Outpost: Reflections on Kristallnacht
In Paris, a seventeen year old boy, Hershel Grynspan, the child of a couple among those dislocated and suffering Jews, received a note from his desperate family detailing the suffering and anguish of the group.
There were some, even among Jews, who thought this pogrom was occasioned by Von Rath’s murder.
Perhaps, but the “root cause” theorists would soon bring up the murder of Rath, even though these events were already on course long before Grynspan’s fateful visit to the embassy.
mideastoutpost.com /archives/000204.html   (1098 words)

  
 Frameworks V4.0: Selected Holocaust Glossary
He agonized over the fate of his parents who, in the course of a pre-war roundup of Polish Jews living in Germany, were deported to the Polish frontier.
On November 7, 1938, he went to the German Embassy where he shot and mortally wounded Third Secretary Ernst von Rath.
The "excuse" for this action was the assassination of Ernst von Rath in Paris by a Jewish teenager whose parents had been rounded by the Nazis.
www.flholocaustmuseum.com /frameworks/glossary.htm   (3251 words)

  
 Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) | 9-10 November 1938
On 7 November 1938 Ernst von Rath, a German embassy official in Paris was shot (and mortally wounded) by a 17-year-old Polish Jew in response to the mistreatment of his parents and the thousands of other Polish Jews in Germany.
Goebbels spoke instead, delivering a bitter attack on the Jews and calling for Rath's death to be avenged.
Making it clear that Hitler would not oppose 'spontaneous demonstrations' of the type that had already occurred, he left senior Nazis in no doubt about what was expected of them.
www.leninimports.com /kristallnacht.html   (1375 words)

  
 Preliminary Report - Kristallnacht
His family was amongst them and he learned of the torture they went through in a postcard his sister had managed to send to him.
Instead, the Third Secretary, Ernst von Rath, was sent out and Herschel shot him instead.
After the shooting, Herschel was arrested and said to the police: “Being a Jew is not a crime.
people.stu.ca /~gwypm/report1.htm   (2071 words)

  
 Ingrid Strobl, Kristallnacht
He was referred to Ernst von Rath, the Embassy's third secretary.
In Duesseldorf, where Rath's funeral took place, in addition to the ransacking of Jewish properties they systematically tormented the people, some to death.
In the city of Fuerth, the Jewish population, including the children, the sick and the pregnant women, were dragged out of bed at 2 a.m.
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 Shanghai Jews as seen by Chinese
By mistake, he killed the third grade secretary Ernst von Rath.
On 12 November, two days later, the government official ordered punishing all Jews because they had killed von Rath.
To punish all Jews by making them pay 1,000 million marks as a fine for wanting to emigrate, and that proof of payment of the fine had to be shown before approval was granted.
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 Holocaust (Civilian Tragedy)
Kristallnacht is reported as a response to the murder of Ernst von Rath (secretary of the German embassy in Paris) by a 17 year old Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan.
After Kristallnacht Goebbels issued an appeal for the public to refrain from violence against the Jews, "The justifiable and understandable indignation of the German people over the cowardly Jewish murder of a German diplomat in Paris has resulted during the past night in extensive demonstrations.
The entire population is now, however, strictly requested to desist immediately from all further demonstrations and actions of whatever nature against Jewdom." Many believe "Kristallnacht" was an engineered purge against the Jews and not a spontaneous outbreak of rioting against the Jews (in response to the assassination of Ernst von Rath).
www.mnstarfire.com /ww2/history/holocaust.html   (1057 words)

  
 The Myth of the Six Million -- Nazi Leaders and Extermination
First and foremost it is necessary to consider the case of Hitler and to analyze the contention that Hitler was an active participant in a campaign to exterminate European Jewry.
Joachin von Ribbentrop, Zwischen London und Moskau (Between London and Moscow, Leoni, 1953, pp.
Equally wrong is the contention that Herschel Grynszpan, the Jewish assassin of Ernst von Rath, was executed during World War II at the behest of Goebbels.
www.ihr.org /books/hoggan/19.html   (3579 words)

  
 Kenneth McKilliam: How World War II Came About
On 30 January 1933 Hitler was legally appointed Chancellor of the German Reich by President Von Hindenberg.
The Jews put an end to this, for on 7 November 1938, a few weeks after the Munich Agreement and shortly before the journey to Paris of the German Foreign Minister, Von Ribbentrop, the Polish Jew, Herschel Feibel Grynszpan murdered the German Third Secretary of State, Ernst von Rath, in the German Embassy in Paris.
The five bullets fired were the logical result of the Jews' declaration of war on Germany of March 1933 and put an end to the effort being made to explain and extend the importance of the Munich Agreement and the revision of the Treaty of Versailles.
www.heretical.org /mkilliam/wwii.html   (1836 words)

  
 Amazon.com: History of the SS: Books: G. S Graber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
"Kristallnacht" of Nov. 9, 1938 is fully discussed as reprisal to killing of Ernst von Rath, German embassy counsellor to France, by 17-year-old Hershel Grynszpan, Polish Jew, outraged at deportation of his father's family to the bordertown, Benshen.
With outbreak of WW11 (1939) the sinister SS intellectuals (Otto Ohlendorf, et al.) activated extermination squads Einsatsgruppen, Reinhard Heydrich's "Schutzhaft" protective custody law was proclaimed, & propagandizing the alleged forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" all focused on combating & eliminating Jewish privileges by total removal of the Jews.
There is also much ado about Adolph Eichman, the "Warsaw Ghetto", Ernst Roehm, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, other Nazis & also 16 historic B/W photos plus a 3 page structure of the SS organization & splendid index.
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It is being called “the Night of the Broken Glass” [Kristallnacht], due to all of the plate glass broken in the streets.
The Nazis claim this was a reaction to the assassination of Ernst von Rath, a member of the German Embassy in Paris by a young Polish Jew.
The Propaganda Minister Goebbels said, "The justified and understandable anger of the Germany people over this cowardly Jewish murder to the German Diplomat in Paris found expression last night.
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 Repression's Schedule
Among the group are the parents of Herschel Grynszpan, then living in Paris.
November 7, 1938 -- Herschel Grynszpan enters the German embassy in Paris and assassinates the only official he could find, Third Secretary Ernst von Rath.
Ineptly disguised and presented as another "voluntary and spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment" against alleged Jewish intrigues, and the assassination of von Rath, thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and other properties along with 191 synagogues are looted and destroyed, with at least 90 deaths and many injuries among the German Jewish population.
exlibris.memphis.edu /Secher-Schab/chrono38.htm   (1355 words)

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