Asassination of German Third Secretary of State, Ernst von Rath Caused Kristallnacht

Ed.'s note: November 7, 1938, Paris; A few weeks after the Munich Agreement and shortly before the journey to Paris of the German Foreign Minister, Von Ribbentrop, a Polish Jew, Herschel Feibel Grynszpan murdered the German Third Secretary of State, Ernst von Rath, in the German Embassy in Paris. The assassination put an end to extension of the Munich Agreement, to revise the Treaty of Versailles to fix the damage that was done to Europe after WWI by allowing plebiscite in all German dominated areas. Kristallnacht that took place between November 9-10, 1938 and was the reaction of Germans when they vented their anger by breaking window panes of some shops in reaction to the assassination of Ernst von Rath. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned shops, stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed. The Germans did not "terrorize Jews" on Kristallnacht, they were angered when a Jew assassinated a German head of state. Notice there doesn't exist an adequate bio on the Jew Herschel Feibel at Wikipedia.
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Source: The Times of Israel

80 years after Kristallnacht, German president lights massive Hanukkah menorah

At Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier tells Jewish community it is 'a gift that we can reach out to join hands over the chasm of our history'

By Toby Axelrod | 3 December 2018

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the 15th annual Brandenburg Gate Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony, December 2, 2018. (Toby Axelrod/Times of Israel)

BERLIN – Eighty years after Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," in which Nazis terrorized Jews throughout the German Reich, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was lifted in a cherry picker crane alongside Berlin community Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal to kindle what is billed as Europe's largest Hanukkah menorah, located at the iconic Brandenburg Gate.

Thanks to a misty rain, the first night of Hanukkah was especially sparkly in Berlin this year. Raindrops settled upon several hundred onlookers gathered for the 15th annual candle-lighting ceremony, refracting the lights of Berlin's giant Christmas tree and the illuminated 18th-century monument, just east of where the Berlin Wall once loomed.

As Steinmeier and Teichtal lit the menorah, watching below from the cobblestoned plaza were Berlin Mayor Michael Müller; Bundestag member and vice president Petra Pau; Israel's ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff; US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grennel; Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany; Gideon Joffe, the head of Berlin’s Jewish community; and numerous children and their parents, noshing on jelly donuts under umbrellas.

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