tangentially GR-related

[Otto Sell]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:17 PM
Subject: tangentially GR-related


> Growing up black in Nazi Germany
> 
> CHICAGO (AP) - In 1933, when he was a second-grader in his native
> Hamburg, Hans J. Massaquoi wanted to show what a good German he was,
> so he cajoled his baby sitter into sewing a swastika onto his
> sweater. Massaquoi's mother spotted the Nazi emblem that evening and
> promptly snipped it off, but a teacher had already taken a school
> yard snapshot of the boy wearing the badge. The other children in the
> picture are typical fair-haired north Germans, but young Hans - the
> only child with a swastika - is dark-skinned and has kinky hair. The
> startling photo appears on the dust jacket of Massaquoi's
> autobiography, "Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi
> Germany," published in the United States by William Morrow & Company
> Inc. See
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569135579-9e6

At amazon they give the picture.
Otto