Summer of My German Soldier | Children of the Holocaust
In the following excerpt, Mitchell focuses on Greene's presentation of how Jewish reaction to the Holocaust caused by Germany creates more Jewish victims.
No one would accuse The Summer of My German Soldier of being an upbeat story. It seems, first of all, to operate on the principle of reversing some standard elements of holocaust literature- the American child is a Jew, but she offers safety to a fugitive German prisoner-of-war.
Her father and mother are terrible people, and Patty's isolation from everyone else in Jenkinsville, Arkansas, is so palpable that some of the children who suffered through the war in Europe seem fortunate by contrast. Patty loved Anton, gave him what help she could, and mourned his death...
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