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Caricature on the front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, of Herschel Grynszpan, the Jewish assassin of Ernst vom Roth. The caption reads, "Jewish Murderer/Despicable Jewish deeds besmirch the land/In which the Jewish murderer was accorded the rights of a guest/You have given the murderous people a free path/If you treat the criminal like a human being!"

Photograph | Photograph Number: 37855A
Caricature on the front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, of Herschel Grynszpan, the Jewish assassin of Ernst vom Roth. The caption reads, "Jewish Murderer/Despicable Jewish deeds besmirch the land/In which the Jewish murderer was accorded the rights of a guest/You have given the murderous people a free path/If you treat the criminal like a human being!"

Caricature on the front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, of Herschel Grynszpan, the Jewish assassin of Ernst vom Roth. The caption reads, "Jewish Murderer/Despicable Jewish deeds besmirch the land/In which the Jewish murderer was accorded the rights of a guest/You have given the murderous people a free path/If you treat the criminal like a human being!"

Date
December 1938
Locale
Nuremberg, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale
Nurnberg
Photo Designation
ANTISEMITISM - GERMANY 1933-45 -- Propaganda -- Der Stuermer
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Virginius Dabney

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Biography
Herschel Grynszpan (1921-1943?), born in Hannover, Germany, was the son of Polish Jews who had immigrated to Germany. In 1936 Grynszpan fled to Paris. On November 7, 1938, after having learned of the deportation of his parents from Germany to the Polish frontier, Grynszpan assassinated Ernst vom Rath, the third secretary of the German embassy in Paris. The diplomat's subsequent death two days later was used by the Nazi regime as justification for unleashing the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10. In 1940 Grynszpan was turned over to the Germans by the Vichy government, but the date and place of his death has never been clarified.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Virginius Dabney
Source Record ID: Collections: 1990.29.30
Published Source
Der Stuermer: Deutsches Wochenblatt zum Kampfe und die Wahrheit - Julius Streicher - December 1938
 
Record last modified: 2002-10-16 00:00:00
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