How Claeys Died (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Sansom
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: Shortly after the end of World War II
- Setting: German countryside
- Principal Characters: Claeys, Two English officers and a driver, Expatriates from Eastern Europe
- Genres: Short fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Murder or homicide, Psychology or psychologists, World War II, Violence, Labor camps
- Locales: Germany
The Story
A Belgian named Claeys, temporarily attached to the British army on a civilian mission, is riding in Germany with two officers and a driver two months after the end of World War II. He is a teacher who has volunteered to assist in the rehabilitation of the enemy. He is traveling to one of the camps of displaced persons, mostly Slavs, from a German forced-labor camp.
The car drives through a verdant landscape, where vegetation is already camouflaging the evidence of war, burying the carcasses of abandoned war machines in grass and vines. However, there is also a...
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