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Caricature on the front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, depicting Herschel Grynszpan as the crucifier of Ernst vom Rath. The caption reads, "Crucifixion/Will a world want to risk, for the sake of Judas/The spilling of its lifeblood/Whereby, once again, it will lose its best blood/And Jewish sadism will triumph?"

Photograph | Photograph Number: 31520A
Caricature on the front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, depicting Herschel Grynszpan as the crucifier of Ernst vom Rath. The caption reads, "Crucifixion/Will a world want to risk, for the sake of Judas/The spilling of its lifeblood/Whereby, once again, it will lose its best blood/And Jewish sadism will triumph?"

Caricature on the front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, depicting Herschel Grynszpan as the crucifier of Ernst vom Rath. The caption reads, "Crucifixion/Will a world want to risk, for the sake of Judas/The spilling of its lifeblood/Whereby, once again, it will lose its best blood/And Jewish sadism will triumph?"

Date
January 1939
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: 1990.29.15
Published Source
Der Stuermer: Deutsches Wochenblatt zum Kampfe und die Wahrheit - Julius Streicher - January 1939
 
Record last modified: 2002-10-16 00:00:00
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