VENGEFUL DEED
YOUNG POLISH JEW SHOOTS GERMAN DIPLOMAT AT EMBASSY IN PARIS. VICTIM IN SERIOUS CONDITION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) PARIS, November 7. A seventeen-year-old Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpen, shot and seriously wounded Dr Von Rath, Secretary to the German Embassy. The youth asked to see the Ambassador and was told that it was impossible, whereupon he drew a revolver.
Grynszpen told the police that he went to the Embassy on a divine mission. He wished to avenge the Polish Jews who had been expelled from Germany and travelled to Paris for that purpose. The German Embassy states that Dr Von Rath was wounded in the chest and lungs and was removed to a private hospital, where an operation was performed. His condtion is serious. Grynszpen was born in Hanover. He possessed a Polish passport, issued by the Paris Consulate. GERMAN REQUEST. REJECTED BY FRENCH POLICE. PARIS, November 7. The police rejected the German Embassy’s request that they should permit a German representative to be present during the questioning of Grynszpen. The Embassy is now considering a formal protest to the French Government.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1938, Page 5
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