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Hitler's pawn the boy assassin and the Holocaust

Presents the story of a seventeen-year-old Jew whose assassination of a German diplomat in Paris was used by the Nazis as a pretext for the state-sponsored anti-Semitic pogrom known as Kristallnacht.

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Main Author: Koch, Stephen, 1941- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019.
Edition:First hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Grynszpan, Herschel Feibel, > 1921-approximately 1943.
Vom Rath, Ernst, > 1909-1938 > Assassination.
Jewish refugees > France > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • La paix! La paix! La paix!
  • The child
  • Hunted
  • Dispossession
  • The assassin's night
  • The assassin's day
  • Hitler's luck
  • Arrest and fame
  • Two speeches
  • The whole world hears
  • Grief and grandiosity
  • The phony war
  • "I'm Herschel Grynszpan! Arrest me!!"
  • Herschel the captive
  • The homosexual strategy
  • Victory unaware
  • Oblivion
  • Two brothers.

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