J.D. Salinger and the Nazis
By: Eberhard Alsen
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780299315702
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: National socialism in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.
Table of contents: title: A secular Jewish upbringing; title: Salinger in Austria before the Nazi takeover; title: Continued unconcern about the Nazis; title: Ready to kill Nazis; title: The Slapton Sands disasters; title: Under fire from the Wehrmacht; title: Salinger's job as a CIC agent; title: The Saint-Lô SNAFU and the liberation of Paris; title: The Hürtgen Forest fiasco; title: Searching for Nazi spies and collaborators in Luxembourg; title: Visit to a concentration camp; title: Nervous breakdown; title: Was Salinger's German wife a Nazi?; title: Half-heartedly hunting Nazis after the war; title: American bastards and Nazi bastards.