Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris

Name: Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
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ISBN: 9780871404527

ISBN-10: 0871404524

ISBN-13: 9780871404527

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jonathan Kirsch

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On the morning of November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a desperate seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat. Two days later vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited the murder to unleash Kristallnacht—its horrific campaign of terror against Germany’s Jewish citizens in a bizarre concatenation of events that would rapidly involve Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself. Bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch brings to light this wrenching story, reexamining the historical details and moral dimensions of one of World War II’s most enigmatic cases. Was Grynszpan a deranged lone gunman or psychopath, as Hannah…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 5/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.96" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

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Prologue The Boy Avenger



From Hanover to Paris



The Day Hitler Dined Alone



The Prodigal Son



Tout Va Bien



Special Handling



Incident on the Rue De Lille



"So That the World Would Not Ignore It"



The Blood Flag



Higher Powers



Phony War



Paris to Berlin



In The Belly of the Beast



Paragraph One Hundred Seventy-Five



Grynszpan's Ghost



The Exterminating Angel


Chronology


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index