Hitler's scapegoat : the boy assassin and the Holocaust
Koch, Stephen, 1941-2019
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Place reservation for Hitler's scapegoat : the boy assassin and the HolocaustOn the 7th November 1938, an impoverished 17-year-old Polish Jew living in Paris, obsessed with Nazi persecution of his family in Germany and, brooding on revenge and his own insignificance, bought a small handgun, carried it on the Metro to the German Embassy in Paris, and never before having fired a weapon, shot down the first German diplomat he saw. When the wounded official died two days later, Hitler and Goebbels used his death as their pretext for the state-sponsored wave of anti-Semitic violence and terror known as Kristallnacht, the pogrom that was the initiating event of the Holocaust. Overnight this obscure young man, Herschel Grynszpan, found himself world-famous, a face on front pages everywhere, and a pawn in the machinations of great power.
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Hitler's scapegoat : the boy assassin and the Holocaust / Stephen Koch.
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Imprint:
Stroud, Glocestershire : Amberley, 2019.
Collation:
x, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781445689500 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'31842940.531842
Language:
English
Subject:
Grynszpan, Herschel Feibel, 1921-approximately 1943Grynszpan, Herschel Feibel, 1921-approximately 1943 -- Trials, litigation, etcVom Rath, Ernst, 1909-1938 -- AssassinationJews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945Kristallnacht, 1938Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- CausesWorld War, 1939-1945 -- CausesGermany -- Ethnic relations
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2719508
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