Champion - A German Boxer, a Jewish Assassin and Hitler's Revenge (Paperback)

Dark haired, slight, with deep-set haunted eyes, Herschel Grynszpan is an undocumented Jewish alien living in Paris. He receives a postcard from his parents - recently bundled from their Hanover flat, put on a train and dumped, with 12,000 others on the Polish border. Enraged, Herschel buys a gun and kills a minor German official in the German Embassy. The repercussions trigger Kristalnacht, the nationwide pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria, a calamity which some have called the opening act of the Holocaust. Intertwined is the parallel life of the German boxer, Max Schmeling, who as a result of his victory over the then 'invincible' Joe Louis in 1936 became the poster boy of the Nazis. He and his movie-star wife, Anny Ondra, were feted by the regime - tea with Hitler, a passage on the airship Hindenburg - until his brutal two-minute beating in the rematch with Louis less than two years later. His story reaches a climax during Kristalnacht, where the champion performs an act of quiet heroism.

General

Imprint:	Unicorn Publishing Group
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2020
Authors:	Stephen Deutsch
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-913491-12-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	1-913491-12-9
Barcode:	9781913491123

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