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...Dawie Crous, a traffic policeman: "It's easy to hate blacks. I've seen enough crime and senseless stuff among black drivers on the roads to wonder what the hell would happen if these guys were the ones laying down the law. I have to be honest and say that I feel more comfortable with my own people, that means Afrikaner people. But we all know that changes will have to come. I can't say I feel threatened...
Author Kirst's picture of barracks life is only mildly caricature: he knows that the everyday facts are so close to comedy that there is no need to invent the ludi crous. Above all-almost for the first time since Hitler's rise, when the shadow of horror fell on all writing by and about Germans-this book makes at least one group of Germans seem truly human and amusing. For whatever else they were, Gunner Asch suggests the Wehrmacht soldiers were also members in the brother hood of the gripe, card-carriers in the great privates...
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