Conspiracy in Paris, November 1938: medical fraud as pretext for Kristallnacht Pogrom.
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Conspiracy in Paris, November 1938: medical fraud as pretext for Kristallnacht Pogrom.
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call numberP940.5318/148
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07729
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Ramat Gan, Israel
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]IMAJ (Israel Medical Association Journal)
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2011
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Loose-leaf
NotesArticle from the journal IMAJ Vol.13 May 2011pp266-269
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
The nazi regime used the assasination of Baron vom Rath by a Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan as a pretext to organise the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938. It also involved a possible cover-up of medical malpractice that led to vom Rath's death.