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Short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan, a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris, Jonathan Kirsch

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-320) and index

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Short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan

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Jonathan Kirsch

a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris

On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out of love for my parents and for my people. Two days later, vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited his murder to inaugurate its long-planned campaign of terror against Germany's Jewish citizens, in the mass pogrom that became known as Kristallnacht. In a bizarre concatenation of events that would rapidly involve Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself, Grynszpan would become the centrepiece of a Nazi propaganda campaign that would later describe his actions as the first shot of the Jewish War

pt. I From Hanover To Paris -- 1.The Day Hitler Dined Alone -- 2.The Prodigal Son -- 3.Tout Va Bien -- 4.Special Handling -- pt. II Incident On The Rue De Lille -- 5."So That The World Would Not Ignore It" -- 6.The Blood Flag -- 7.Higher Powers -- 8.Phony War -- pt. III Paris To Berlin -- 9.In The Belly Of The Beast -- 10.Paragraph One Hundred Seventy-Five -- 11.Grynszpan's Ghost -- 12.The Exterminating Angel

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