Overview
- Summary
- Salinger grew up in an American Jewish family and became a Holocaust witness during the war. But in his writings he never mentions the Holocaust and makes only a one-sentence reference to the Buchenwald concentration camp. This book argues that there are three reasons for Salinger's failure to express any outrage about the Nazis' program to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]
©2018 - Contents
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A secular Jewish upbringing
Salinger in Austria before the Nazi takeover
Continued unconcern about the Nazis
Ready to kill Nazis
The Slapton Sands disasters
Under fire from the Wehrmacht
Salinger's job as a CIC agent
The Saint-Lô SNAFU and the liberation of Paris
The Hürtgen Forest fiasco
Searching for Nazi spies and collaborators in Luxembourg
Visit to a concentration camp
Nervous breakdown
Was Salinger's German wife a Nazi?
Half-heartedly hunting Nazis after the war
American bastards and Nazi bastards. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.
A secular Jewish upbringing -- Salinger in Austria before the Nazi takeover -- Continued unconcern about the Nazis -- Ready to kill Nazis -- The Slapton Sands disasters -- Under fire from the Wehrmacht -- Salinger's job as a CIC agent -- The Saint-Lô SNAFU and the liberation of Paris -- The Hürtgen Forest fiasco -- Searching for Nazi spies and collaborators in Luxembourg -- Visit to a concentration camp -- Nervous breakdown -- Was Salinger's German wife a Nazi? -- Half-heartedly hunting Nazis after the war -- American bastards and Nazi bastards.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780299315702
0299315703 - Physical Description
- x, 154 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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