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)
