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Grynszpan
“Grynszpan
hismelf survived the war and turned up at the post-war
Hamburg (?) trial of Leopold Gutterer, Goebbels’ state
secretary, as the late Gutterer told me when I
interviewed him (right) at length on my last trip to
Germany on June 30, 1993. Herschel Grynszpan was
pointed out to him, standing in the back of the
courtroom, observing the proceedings.”You say
(above) that [Vom Rath’s Jewish assassin]
Herschel Grynszpan survived the war, but how are you so sure?I have read The day the Holocaust began:
The odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan by Gerald
Schwab and Herschel:The boy who started WW2 by
Andy Marino and in both books they are unsure of his survival and even in the Adolf Eichmann trials
Mr.Grynszpan testified that neither he nor his son
Mordechai Grynszpan was able to find him; this trial was held in 1961.On June 1, 1960 the Amtsgericht (lower court) of Hanover declared Herschel Grynszpan as deceased.The date of death was nominally fixed as May 8,
1945.The decision became final on July 24 1960.I find it odd that if he survived he cut the connection to his family, to which he was apparently so close.
“Grynszpan
hismelf survived the war and turned up at the post-war
Hamburg (?) trial of Leopold Gutterer, Goebbels’ state
secretary, as the late Gutterer told me when I
interviewed him (right) at length on my last trip to
Germany on June 30, 1993. Herschel Grynszpan was
pointed out to him, standing in the back of the
courtroom, observing the proceedings.”