Presents the story of a seventeen-year-old Jew whose assassination of a German diplomat in Paris was used by the Nazis as a pretext for the state-sponsored anti-Semitic pogrom known as Kristallnacht.
La paix! La paix! La paix! -- The child -- Hunted -- Dispossession -- The assassin's night -- The assassin's day -- Hitler's luck -- Arrest and fame -- Two speeches -- The whole world hears -- Grief and grandiosity -- The phony war -- "I'm Herschel Grynszpan, arrest me!" -- Herschel the captive -- The homosexual strategy -- Victory unaware -- Oblivion -- Two brothers.
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