This book was so weird. It was extremely harsh-toned and vulgar – he had a lot of passages about male genitalia (Maybe he is in the closet, I don’t know I wont judge). What I thought was interesting was this the first book, albeit fiction, in the perspective of a Nazi perpetrator. In my Brother’s Shadow is about the BROTHER of a perpetrator, so that one is different. Also, what strikes me is that the author, a Holocaust survivor, has a book in the view of a Nazi perpetrator. That same perpetrator gets away with his crimes by assuming the identity of his dead Jewish friend that he possibly killed. After becoming his friend, he makes a b-line straight for Israel and gets to live the high life as a Zionist freedom fighter. But why? Why the sudden change from killing Jews to representing and fighting for them? Is that protective measure so no one finds out who he is? Or could he have changed for the better?
I chose this book for my final paper because I like how the author brings up the transition from Nazi perpetrator to Zionist freedom fighter. I believe this a metaphor for Post-war Germany’s attitude towards the Jewish people. After the war, Germany totally switched gears and began to appreciate Jewish culture instead of trying to squash it.