Assessment Task Individual History Essay “Kristallnacht was the most significant anti-Semitic event of the 1930s.” How valid is this statement? On the 7th of November in 1938 German diplomat Ernst Vom Rath was assassinated in Paris by the Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan who was angry about the expulsion of Jewish people from Germany to Poland. After Ernst Vom Rath died two days later, Nazi soldiers launched Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass, which was a planned attack on Jewish communities