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In the seventy-fifth wedding anniversary of Kristallnacht comes this untold history of an adolescent whose action of defiance could have dire international implications. On the morning hours of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked in to the German embassy in Paris and in an action of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He achieved it, he said, out "of love for my parents and then for my people." Two days later, vom Rath place dead, and the 3rd Reich exploited his murder to inaugurate its long-planned plan of terror against Germany's Jewish citizens, in the mass pogrom that became known as Kristallnacht. In the bizarre concatenation of events that would quickly require Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself, Grynszpan would end up being the centerpiece of a Nazi propaganda plan that would later illustrate his activities as "the first shot of the Jewish War.
