Comments on: Grynszpan and the rest of the story https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:08:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Michael Adams https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-223134 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:08:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-223134 Ezra Klein, Parker. He’s a fairly insignificant little twerp, so we have trouble remembering exactly what he said, but the name floats around in the annoyance center in the brain.

]]> By: Tom https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222990 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:09:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222990 My bad. Dunno whence came Ezra in my small brain!

]]> By: Parker https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222968 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:37:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222968 “Grynszpan transliterates to Greenspan. Wonder if Ezra is remotely related to Herschel.”

I think Alan is a bit closer to the mark. 🙂

]]> By: Tom https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222963 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:05:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222963 Grynszpan transliterates to Greenspan. Wonder if Ezra is remotely related to Herschel.

]]> By: Parker https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222948 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:48:12 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222948 If not for the assassination of Rath, the National Socialist Party would have concocted a similar event to set off Kristallnacht. The assassination was merely convenient. The Reichstag Fire was very similar in nature, namely a disturbed dupe was used to create a rational for the persecution of Jews and all dissidents.

There is a good discussion of these two incidents in William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. A book I highly recommend if any of you have not yet read it. It leads the reader step by step through the dire circumstances of Germany under the Weimar Republic, Hitler’s slow rise to power, and all that followed. Its a lesson in how discontent and poverty can lead to great horrors and the death of tens of millions.

]]> By: LAG https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222943 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:39:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222943 Very interesting story, neo. Thanks for the link.

]]> By: Tom https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222911 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:16:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/05/grynszpan-and-the-rest-of-the-story/#comment-222911 Doubtless a story with which novelist Alan Furst is thoroughly familiar. I cannot read one Furst, then pick up another; too mind-churning.

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