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3.0
It's effective to describe encroaching Nazism through the eyes and mind of a young boy, where as would be expected, things just are as they are. But by war's end, it becomes disturbing when it seems the young man, highly intelligent and literate, has thought about the process not at all. The Reich has largely washed over him and his town other than deaths that happened elsewhere; even the sole Jew is unscathed. Ultimately it's interesting but too facile, especially as a quasi-memoir. The author lets himself off the hook.
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