10. The Boy Who Shot the Nazi (Season 2)

<p>Kristallnacht was the violent uprising against German Jews in November 1938 that was the opening to the eventual genocide of six million Europeans Jews—and then millions of others—during World War II. This final episode of Good Assassins Season 2 tells the story of Herschel Grynszpan, the young man whose story is at the dead center of the Holocaust. He became an assassin, and the assassination he committed on November 7, 1938 in Paris is the spark that set off the inferno that was the Nazi Holocaust. In 1938 Herschel Grynszpan was just 17 years old.</p> <p>This episode contains interviews with:</p> <p>• <a href="https://blog.pmpress.org/authors-artists-comrades/joseph-matthews/">Joseph Matthews</a>: author of the historical novel about Herschel Grynszpan called <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Their-Reasons-Joseph-Matthews/dp/1629630942">Everyone Has Their Reasons</a></em> praised as a "A tragic, gripping Orwellian tale of an orphan turned assassin in pre-World War II Paris..." </p> <p>• <a href="https://arminfuhrer.de">Armin Fuhrer</a>: journalist, archivist, and historian who wrote <em><a href="https://www.amazon.de/Herschel-Attentat-Grynszpan-November-Holocaust/dp/3863681010/r">Herschel: The Assassination of Herschel Grynszpan on November 7, 1938 and The Beginning of the Holocaust</a></em></p> <p>• <strong>Herman Kempinsky (Ziering)</strong>: Holocaust survivor and former president of the Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto. Clips from interviews with Lore Oppenheimer and Hermann Ziering from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection. Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem. © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, State of Israel. For more information visit <a href="https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004793">USHMM</a></p> <p>• <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kirsch">Jonathan Kirsch</a>: author of the book, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Short-St