Ernst Eduard vom Rath ( 3 June 1909 &ndash; 9 November 1938 ) was a German diplomat . He is remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager , Herschel Grynszpan , which provided a pretext for the '' Kristallnacht '' , " The Night of Broken Glass "
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Ernst vom Rath