Henry Schmidt Biography

Henry Schmidt was just an ordinary ten year old boy. He lived in Hamburg with his parents as a small working class family. Henry went to school and played with friends just like any ten year old should. And just like every other ten year old in Nazi Germany at the time, Henry was key to Hitler's plans.
This is the story of one man’s childhood. Henry Schmidt was one of the millions of children who learnt to live, to fight, and if necessary, to die for Adolf Hitler.

On the evening of January 30th 1933 Henry sat on the floor of their living room in the cramped little house. His parents say on the couch and all three had their eyes glued to the small second hand TV in front of them. They watched the man step forward to accept his position as …show more content…
19th October 1936

Henry came home from Hitler Youth that night to find his father with a bloody bandage around his hand. Henry only had to gawk to set off the story.

"I was checking one of the machines you see. It was malfunctioning, happens all the time. Except then it stared back up - while my hand was still in there! And now I've lost two of my fingers. But the worst but is that with all the Jewish doctors being laid off - and good riddance to that, don't get me wrong - there was hardly anyone in town who was capable of treating my hand. What was I supposed to do? I was bleeding to death for heavens sake!"

‘NOVEMBER 7, 1938
GERMAN DIPLOMAT SHOT IN PARIS
Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew living in Paris, shoots Ernst vom Rath, a diplomat attached to the German embassy in Paris. Grynszpan apparently acts out of despair over the fate of his parents, who are trapped along with other Polish Jewish deportees in a no-man’s-land between Germany and Poland. The Nazis use the shooting to fan antisemitic fervor, claiming that Grynszpan did not act alone, but was part of a wider Jewish conspiracy against Germany. Vom Rath dies two days later.’(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2013).

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