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“send Me No Food; I Want No Pleasure,” Grynszpan Says

January 18, 1939
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Herschel Grynszpan, slayer of a German Embassy official in Paris, wants no one to send him food because “I don’t want to have any pleasure out of life,” and he would like to have been taken back to Germany to die, telling the Nazis at the last moment “that they are cruel beasts and torturers.” A letter written to a friend from his prison cell is published in Liberty magazine and was enacted on the True Story radio NBC hour tonight.

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