

Hitler's Pawn
The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Author: Stephen Koch
Narrator: James Anderson Foster
Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 01/15/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, Wars, World War Ii, Modern History, Holocaust
Synopsis
Overnight, Grynszpan, a bright but naive teenager—and a perfect political nobody—was 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, Hitler's Pawn is the richest telling of Grynszpan's story to date.