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092    BIO|bGRYNSZPA 
100 1  Koch, Stephen,|d1941-|eauthor. 
245 10 Hitler's pawn :|bthe boy assassin and the Holocaust /
       |cStephen Koch. 
250    First hardcover edition. 
264  1 Berkeley, California :|bCounterpoint,|cc [2019] 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    x, 259 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and 
       index. 
520    "After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, 
       Herschel Grynszpan (pronounced "Greenspan"), an 
       impoverished seventeen-year-old Jew living in Paris, 
       bought a small handgun and on November 7, 1938, went to 
       the German embassy and shot the first German diplomat he 
       saw. When the man died two days later, Hitler and Goebbels
       made the shooting their pretext for the great state-
       sponsored wave of anti-Semitic terror known as 
       Kristallnacht, still seen by many as an initiating event 
       of the Holocaust.  Overnight, Grynszpan, a bright but 
       naive teenagerand a perfect political nobodywas front-page
       news and a pawn in a global power struggle. When France 
       fell, the Nazis captured Grynszpan after a wild chase and 
       flew him to Berlin. The boy became a privileged prisoner 
       of the Gestapo while Hitler and Goebbels plotted a massive
       show trial to blame "the Jews" for starting World War II. 
       A prisoner and alone, Grynszpan grasped Hitler's 
       intentions and waged a battle of wits to sabotage the 
       trial, knowing that even if he succeeded, he would 
       certainly be murdered. The battle of wits was close, but 
       Grynszpan finally won. Based on the newest research, 
       Hitlers Pawn is the richest telling of Grynszpan's story 
       to date."--Inside dust jacket. 
600 10 Grynszpan, Herschel Feibel,|d1921-approximately 1943. 
600 10 Vom Rath, Ernst,|d1909-1938|xAssassination. 
650  0 Jewish refugees|zFrance|vBiography. 
650  0 Assassins|zFrance|zParis|vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft