Konrad Otto Bernheimer was born in Rubio , Venezuela , on 30 August 1950 . Following Kristallnacht on 9 – 10 November 1938 , which saw the huge plate glass windows of the Bernheimer-Haus smashed , the family was sent to Dachau concentration camp . The Mexican government intervened , as his grandfather Otto Bernheimer was the Mexican honorary consul in Munich . Hermann Göring , a Bernheimer client , did a deal whereby they bought his niece ’s Venezuelan coffee plantation which was struggling , and were allowed to emigrate there , and also had to take Göring 's aunt and her Jewish husband along , and support them until they died
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Konrad Bernheimer