All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

by Rebecca Donner

Of course, the teenager hadn’t been trained by an organization, nor was Kristallnacht “spontaneous.” It was masterminded by Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Gestapo, who saw in the teenager’s crime a convenient pretext to instigate violence.