GRGR(4)Question about Slothrop going under

[Jeremy Osner]

I don't quite get why interviewing an American soldier is the best way of
understanding German people's race fears. Surely there was the odd German
available? If nothing else, a POW?

Tom Hickey wrote:

> They want to play upon Germany's own fear of their "dark, secret
> children", the Herero who was once a comfortable distance away in the
> Sudwest but now "lives in his stepfather's house."  The same fears running
> through America at the time.