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Hitler's Scapegoat - The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust (Paperback)
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Hitler's Scapegoat - The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 760
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On 7 November 1938, an impoverished seventeen-year-old Polish Jew
living in Paris, obsessed with Nazi persecution of his family in
Germany, brooding on revenge - and his own insignificance - bought
a 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 official died two days later, Hitler and
Goebbels used the event 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, his face on front pages everywhere, and a pawn in the
machinations of power. Instead of being executed, he found himself
a privileged prisoner of the Gestapo while Hitler and Goebbels
prepared a show-trial. The trial, planned to the last detail, was
intended to prove that the Jews had started the Second World War.
Alone in his cell, Herschel soon grasped how the Nazis planned to
use him, and set out to wage a battle of wits against Hitler and
Goebbels, knowing perfectly well that if he succeeded in stopping
the trial, he would certainly be murdered. Until very recently,
what really happened has remained hazy. Hitler's Scapegoat, based
on the most recent research - including access to a heretofore
untapped archive compiled by a Nuremberg rapporteur - tells
Herschel's extraordinary story in full for the first time.
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