Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust

Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust - Paperback

$16.95
$16.95
Skip to product information
Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
  • Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust - Paperback

Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust - Paperback

by Stephen Koch
$16.95
$16.95

Book Overview

by Stephen Koch (Author)

A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust

After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan (pronounced Greenspan) 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 state-sponsored wave of antiSemitic terror known as Kristallnacht, still seen by many as an initiating event of the Holocaust.

Overnight, Grynszpan, a bright but naive teenager, was front-page news and a pawn in a global power struggle.

Author Biography

Stephen Koch, the former head of the Writing Division of Columbia University's School of the Arts, is the author of numerous books including Double Lives and The Modern Library Writer's Workshop. He lives in New York City.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: December 10, 2019
ISBN9781640093386
Author Stephen Koch
PublisherCatapult
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Biography & Autobiography History Nonfiction

1% fer Each of the Seven Seas

Every purchase sends 7% of our profits to The Ocean Cleanup. No fine print, no opt-in — just how we sail.

Whoever Ye Be, Welcome Aboard

Queer lit, music, art, philosophy, fiction — stories for every kind of soul. Come as ye are, matey.

More by Stephen Koch

The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction - Paperback

The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction - Paperback

By Stephen Koch

About Stephen Koch

Stephen Koch taught the craft of fiction to graduate students for twenty-one years in the writing division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University and to undergraduates for seven years in the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University. Koch is the author of two enthusiastically acclaimed and widely translated novels, Night Watch and The Bachelor's Bride, and several nonfiction works, including Stargazer: Andy Warhol's World and Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.

You may also like