GRGR(4)Question about Slothrop going under
David Morris
davidm at hrihci.com
Mon Jun 28 18:13:45 CDT 1999
Jeremy's point is just what I was thinking, and the reason I believe it was
not the real reason for putting Slothrop 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.
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