A TERRIBLE STORY OF HERSCHEL GRYNSZPAN, A YOUNG MAN WHO USES HIS INCIDENT AS AN EXCUSE.

 a terrible story of Herschel Grynszpan , a young man who uses his incident as an excuse 

to initiate the Kristallnacht attacks against Germany's Jews — widely believed to be the starting point of the Holocaust.

On November 7, 1938, a Jewish teenager named Herschel Grynszpan walked into the German embassy in Paris with claims that he had a valuable secret document he was willing to hand over to the Nazis. 

When diplomat Ernst vom Rath asked for the document, Grynszpan instead pulled out the gun he'd bought the day before and shot vom Rath to death as the price tag still hung from the smoking barrel. 

Grynszpan's parents had been arrested by the Nazis just days before and shipped off to a Polish work camp alongside 12,000 other Jews.

 The young man wanted vengeance, but he had no idea what the true fallout of his desperate act would be. 

Hitler soon used the incident as an excuse to initiate the Kristallnacht attacks against Germany's Jews — widely believed to be the starting point of the Holocaust.  

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