May 2024
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516 pages
23h 26m
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
– George Santayana
On 7 November 1938, German diplomat Ernst vom Rath, while stationed in Paris, was shot multiple times by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager. vom Rath succumbed to his injuries two days later. The events that unfolded in Nazi Germany in the immediate aftermath of vom Rath's death have, perhaps, never been more timely to revisit than today. The events would come to be popularized as Kristallnacht.
Known in English as “The Night of the Broken Glass”, Kristallnacht ...
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