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Katja Hoyer on X: "#OTD in 1938, the 17 year old Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan shot the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath. The incident provided the pretext for the Nazis to launch '
Caricature on the front page of the Nazi publication, Der Stuermer, depicting Herschel Grynszpan as the
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