 Thus it does not forget the failings of the man, a notorious snob and megalomaniac, which she describes as the reverse side of his qualities.One of her essays published in 2015 portrays the murder of Ernst vom Rath, which served as an excuse for the Nazis to start the pogroms against the Jews known as Kristallnacht.She confronts the different versions to explain the murderer Herschel Grynszpan's motives.