Exchanging Glances | A Country’s Shame
The third and final section of the story describes the moments when the narrator exchanged glances with concentration camp survivors—people who have experienced the war differently than she has. She has these insights into alternative perspectives in the moments following the German surrender and the death of Hitler. She learns of Hitler’s death from a soldier who is nonchalantly washing up at a pump and is amazed to see that the world does not seem permanently altered by the sentence, ‘‘The Fuhrer is dead.’’
The narrator sees a large group of concentration camp...
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