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Grynszpan Feared Fallen into Nazis’ Hands

June 21, 1940
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No word has come from Paris of the fate of young Herschel Gryszpan, whose assassination of a German Embassy official in Paris in 1938 precipitated organized pogroms in Germany, Government officials said today.

The officials believed it certain that the Polish Jewish youth, who had been held in a Paris cell awaiting trial, has fallen into German hands. They expressed doubt that he would survive.

(A London dispatch quoted a French radio report that Grynszpan had been seized by the Nazis in Paris and would be “tried” by them.)

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