Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (Yiddish: הערשל פײַבל גרינשפּאן; German: Hermann Grünspan; 28 March 1921 – last rumoured to be alive in 1945, declared dead in 1960) was a Polish-Jewish expatriate born and raised in Weimar Germany who shot the Nazi German...
Ernst Eduard vom Rath (3 June 1909 – 9 November 1938) was a German diplomat. He is mainly remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, which was used as a pretext for Kristallnacht, "The Night of...
Dorothy Celene Thompson (July 9, 1893 – January 30, 1961) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, in 1934, and was one of the few women news commentators broadcasting...
In October 1938, about 17,000 Jewish Poles living in Nazi Germany were arrested and expelled. These deportations, termed by the Nazis Polenaktion ("Polish Action"), were ordered by SS officer and head of the Gestapo Reinhard Heydrich. The deported...
Wolfgang Diewerge (12 January 1906 in Stettin - 4 December 1977 in Essen) was a Nazi propagandist in Joseph Goebbels' Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. His special field was anti-Semitic public relations, especially in...
Friedrich Wilhelm Johannes Grimm (17 June 1888 – 16 May 1959) was a German lawyer, Nazi Party politician, and propagandist. He opposed the Treaty of Versailles, defended political assassinations during the Weimar Republic, supported the rise to...
Kristallnacht (German: [kʁɪsˈtalnaχt] ; lit. 'crystal night') or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (German: Novemberpogrome [noˈvɛm.bɐ.poˌɡʁoːmə] ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung...
Sachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩] ) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May. It mainly held political...
Greenspan is a typically Ashkenazi Jewish surname. It is the anglicized form of the Yiddish surname Grünspan (Yiddish: גריןשפּאַן, lit. 'green branch/green bridle', actually referring to Copper(II) acetate which was commonly known as "Spanish...
Jonathan Kirsch is an American attorney, writer, and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He is an author of books on religion, the Bible, and Judaism.