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This Nazi diplomat was assassinated by the Jewish activist Herschel Grynszpan \u2013\u2013 and his death became a pretext for the murderous pogroms of Kristallnacht. Grynszpan's lawyer, the flamboyant anti-fascist Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, pioneered in this case what was perhaps the first \u2013\u2013 and only morally good \u2013- use of some version of a 'gay panic' or \u2018gay blackmail\u2019 defense. But was vom Rath actually gay?\n----more----\nSOURCES:\nJonathan Kirsch, The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris, First Edition (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013)\nMuseum of Jewish Heritage, The Forgotten Life of Herschel Grynszpan, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLl_iK1xiiE;\nGerald Schwab, The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan (New York: Praeger, 1990).