Hitler's Scapegoat: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust by Stephen Koch (English)

Description: Hitler's Scapegoat by Stephen Koch New B-format paperback edition. How Hitler used the murder of a Nazi diplomat to blame the Jews for WW2, based on new archive sources. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Hitlers Scapegoat, based on the most recent research - including access to a heretofore untapped archive compiled by a Nuremberg rapporteur - tells Herschels extraordinary story in full for the first time. Author Biography Stephen Koch taught fiction to graduate students for more than twenty years in the writing division of the Columbia University School of the Arts and to undergraduates for seven years in the Princeton University Program in Creative Writing. He is the author of two acclaimed novels, Night Watch and The Bachelors Bride, and several works of non-fiction, including Stargazer: Andy Warhols World and Double Lives: Stalin, Willi MÜnzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals. Review A riveting tale -- Wall Street JournalIn a work of fact that reads like fiction, with a novelists relish for incident and character, he brings his troubled, troubling protagonist to life -- The Wall Street JournalA powerful book about justice, outrage and the preservation of truth -- The SpectatorThis book reads like a thriller -- New York Journal of BooksGripping -- Daily Mail Book of the Week Review Quote Gripping Description for Sales People New B-formar paperback edition The full story of the Jewish youth who Hitler blamed for the Holocaust , told for the first time in English. A pertinent story of political lies and fake news. Author is a lecturer in writing at Columbia and Princeton universities, previously published by Random House US. Details ISBN1445699109 Author Stephen Koch Pages 272 Publisher Amberley Publishing Year 2020 ISBN-10 1445699109 ISBN-13 9781445699103 Publication Date 2020-02-15 Format Paperback Imprint Amberley Publishing Subtitle The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust Place of Publication Chalford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 940.531842 Illustrations 8 Plates, black and white Short Title Hitlers Scapegoat Language English UK Release Date 2020-02-15 NZ Release Date 2020-02-15 Alternative 9781445689517 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-02-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126772670;

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