October 25, 2016 Tuesday

Bedtime Story The Angry Herschel Grynszpan shoots Ernst vom Rath

Herschel Grynszpan stormed out of his uncle’s house, angry and bitter.

That night he spent outside at some cheap lodge.

With some francs that he had, he wrote a postcard to his family (but not dispatching it) and bought a 6.35 mm bore revolver and bullets.

It was a Monday morning of November 7, 1938 in Paris when Herschel headed to the German embassy.

At the embassy he claimed to be a German citizen with a “most important document” for “His Excellency, the ambassador”.

Little did he know that he had just walked past the German ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck who as usual was going out for his morning walk.

Grynszpan probably wanted to meet the German ambassador Count von Welczeck.

Instead, the officer at station asked a junior diplomat Ernst vom Rath to attend to the young man with a “most important document”.

Grynszpan coolly entered the office of vom Rath, and on being asked to show that document of his, took out his revolver and shot vom Rath 5 times in the abdomen.

Hitler dispatched his two best doctors to Paris, a physician and a surgeon, to save the 29-year-old diplomat who he himself had recently promoted to the rank of Legal Consul, First Class.

Back then in 1932, the only available commercial antibiotics were the first sulfonamide Prontosil, a prodrug, the active compound later discovered to be sulfanilamide.

Even blood banking had only recently been started as late as in 1936 when it was discovered in early 1920s that blood could be stored using anticoagulants and refrigeration.

In addition, the 5 bullet shots had inflicted grievous damage to vital organs such as pancreas, spleen and stomach.

Ernst vom Rath was declared dead on November 9, 2019 at 5.30 pm local time. 

His body was taken to Düsseldorf, Germany where it was given a state funeral attended by Hitler and the Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, his close confidant.

This was just the pretext that Germany was looking for to initiate the Final Solution.

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Good night and my fellow cousin ape.

Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.

While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an IIT graduate and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and physics.

He started the participation of Indian students at the International Physics Olympiad.

Do visit him here:

http://skmclasses.weebly.com/

All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:

https://zookeepersblog.wordpress.com/science-tuition-chemistry-physics-mathematics-for-iit-jee-aieee-std-11-12-pu-isc-cbse/

For edutainment and English education of your children, may I suggest this large collection of Kids Songs:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMX11Z5SJQ3kgwSsFJLRIcg

17 year old Herschel Grynszpan and 28 year old Ernst vom Rath 

These shots echoed very loud and long