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http://thejewniverse.com/2015/the-jewish-boy-who-shot-the-german-diplomat/
Not that one should be a sitting duck but, I get it. Being shoved around to and fro and staring at an insecure future....but was this man's involvement premature? Was it sinful? Was it righteous? Did his growing fear and anger erupt to cause further harm and be the impetus for mass genocide? I say that the Shoah was inevitable. I also think that his murderous actions produced further harm. If he had murdered someone knowing that there were a master plan, then he might have been a hero, like the many attempts on H****r. We know that the plans of the nazis were vast and that there were many complicit in the Holocaust. And to the red-bolded, I'm not putting it past the SS they they didn't plan on applying pressure so that someone would crack and they'd have "justification." I'm wondering about the morality of Grynszpan's actions. What say you?
The Jewish Boy Who Shot the German Diplomat
July 28, 2015 | By Zachary Solomon
Tags: German Jews, holocaust, nazi policies
Herschel Grynszpan wasn’t yet eighteen when, on November 7, 1938, he took 300 francs from his impoverished uncle, bought a revolver, marched into the German embassy in Paris, and shot German diplomat Ernst vom Rath five times in the abdomen.
But this was no random act of violence. Grynszpan, shy but fiercely emotional, was born in Poland, the son of a tailor. Hoping for a better life, his family had relocated to Hanover, where they remained until, in August 1938, German authorities cancelled residence permits for foreigners. The Grynszpans, along with 12,000 other Polish Jews, were deported to Poland, only to be denied entry due to a recent edict cancelling Polish citizenship for expat Jews.
Sick and tired of the way his family—and Jews the continent over—were being treated, Grynszpan fumed, growing angrier by the day. According to French police, Grynszpan “acted in the name of the 12,000 persecuted Jews.”
Immediately after Vom Rath was killed, Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels declared: It would not be surprising if the German people were so outraged at this attack by “the forces of international Jewry” that they took the law into their own hands and attacked Jewish businesses.
And thus Kristallnacht and mass arrests of German Jews began. The rest, other than Grynszpan’s fate, you already know.
Not that one should be a sitting duck but, I get it. Being shoved around to and fro and staring at an insecure future....but was this man's involvement premature? Was it sinful? Was it righteous? Did his growing fear and anger erupt to cause further harm and be the impetus for mass genocide? I say that the Shoah was inevitable. I also think that his murderous actions produced further harm. If he had murdered someone knowing that there were a master plan, then he might have been a hero, like the many attempts on H****r. We know that the plans of the nazis were vast and that there were many complicit in the Holocaust. And to the red-bolded, I'm not putting it past the SS they they didn't plan on applying pressure so that someone would crack and they'd have "justification." I'm wondering about the morality of Grynszpan's actions. What say you?
The Jewish Boy Who Shot the German Diplomat
July 28, 2015 | By Zachary Solomon
Tags: German Jews, holocaust, nazi policies
Herschel Grynszpan wasn’t yet eighteen when, on November 7, 1938, he took 300 francs from his impoverished uncle, bought a revolver, marched into the German embassy in Paris, and shot German diplomat Ernst vom Rath five times in the abdomen.
But this was no random act of violence. Grynszpan, shy but fiercely emotional, was born in Poland, the son of a tailor. Hoping for a better life, his family had relocated to Hanover, where they remained until, in August 1938, German authorities cancelled residence permits for foreigners. The Grynszpans, along with 12,000 other Polish Jews, were deported to Poland, only to be denied entry due to a recent edict cancelling Polish citizenship for expat Jews.
Sick and tired of the way his family—and Jews the continent over—were being treated, Grynszpan fumed, growing angrier by the day. According to French police, Grynszpan “acted in the name of the 12,000 persecuted Jews.”
Immediately after Vom Rath was killed, Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels declared: It would not be surprising if the German people were so outraged at this attack by “the forces of international Jewry” that they took the law into their own hands and attacked Jewish businesses.
And thus Kristallnacht and mass arrests of German Jews began. The rest, other than Grynszpan’s fate, you already know.
