The cause of the crystal night incident

1938101October 28th,17,000 German Jews were deported to Poland by the German government at midnight without any notice. At first, the Polish government refused to accept them, so the Jews had to stay on the border between Germany and Poland until the German authorities persuaded the Polish government to allow them to enter the country.

Among the deportees, there was a Polish Jewish immigrant family, 19 1 1 who settled in Hanover. Their son Herschel Grynszpan lives in an uncle's house in Paris. 165438+1October 3, he received a postcard from his sister Bertas, describing her terrible experience during her dismissal. So Greenspan began to ask Ernst von Ratt, the secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, for help, but von Ratt didn't help him.

1938 165438+1October 7, Greenspan fired three shots in the abdomen,1October 9,165438, and von Rath died of serious injuries. This incident became the fuse of "Crystal Night".