The Resource The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan : a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris, Jonathan Kirsch
The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan : a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris, Jonathan Kirsch
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- Summary
- 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." Best-selling author Jonathan Kirsch brings to light this wrenching story, reexamining the historical details and moral dimensions of one of the most enigmatic cases of World War II. Was Grynszpan a crazed lone gunman, or was he an agent of the Gestapo, recruited to provide a convenient pretext for a major escalation of Nazi aggression? Was he motivated by a desire to strike a blow for the Jewish people as an early partisan fighter, or did his act of violence speak to an intimate connection between the assassin and his target, as Grynszpan later claimed?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 336 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates
- Isbn
- 9780871407405
- Label
- The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan : a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris
- Title
- The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan
- Title remainder
- a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Kirsch
- Subject
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- Holocaust, Jewish -- 1939-1945
- Jewish refugees -- France | Paris -- Biography
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- Kristallnacht, 1938
- Vom Rath, Ernst, 1909-1938 -- Assassination
- Jews -- Germany | Hannover -- Biography
- Grynszpan, Herschel Feibel, 1921-approximately 1943
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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." Best-selling author Jonathan Kirsch brings to light this wrenching story, reexamining the historical details and moral dimensions of one of the most enigmatic cases of World War II. Was Grynszpan a crazed lone gunman, or was he an agent of the Gestapo, recruited to provide a convenient pretext for a major escalation of Nazi aggression? Was he motivated by a desire to strike a blow for the Jewish people as an early partisan fighter, or did his act of violence speak to an intimate connection between the assassin and his target, as Grynszpan later claimed?
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- SALS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kirsch, Jonathan
- Dewey number
- 940.5318
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Grynszpan, Herschel Feibel
- Vom Rath, Ernst
- Jewish refugees
- Jews
- Kristallnacht, 1938
- Holocaust, Jewish
- Jews
- Germany
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan : a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris, Jonathan Kirsch
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000052841796
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 336 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates
- Isbn
- 9780871407405
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)880833384
- Label
- The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan : a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris, Jonathan Kirsch
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000052841796
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 336 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates
- Isbn
- 9780871407405
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)880833384
Subject
- Holocaust, Jewish -- 1939-1945
- Jewish refugees -- France | Paris -- Biography
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- Kristallnacht, 1938
- Vom Rath, Ernst, 1909-1938 -- Assassination
- Jews -- Germany | Hannover -- Biography
- Grynszpan, Herschel Feibel, 1921-approximately 1943
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