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**"Reading this excellent, thought-provoking biography, one is all too easily reminded of Camus’s 1942 novel, __The Stranger__."―Philip Kerr, __Wall Street Journal__** On the morning of November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a desperate seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat. Two days later vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited the murder to unleash Kristallnacht in a bizarre concatenation of events that would rapidly involve Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself. But was Grynszpan a crazed lone gunman or agent provocateur of the Gestapo? Was he motivated by a desire to avenge Jewish people, or did his act of violence speak to an intimate connection between the assassin and his target, as Grynszpan later claimed? Part page-turning historical thriller and part Kafkaesque legal drama, __The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan__ brings to life the historical details and moral dimensions of one of the most enigmatic cases of World War II. This compelling biography presents a story with twists and turns that “no novelist could invent” (Alice Kaplan). 8 pages of photographs

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Author

Jonathan Kirsch

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871407023

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.64 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13