Word: freddy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johannes Robin is not half scared enough. Hitler sounds crazy and dangerous, but in Robin's experience no soup is ever eaten as hot as it is cooked. What with his son Hansi a Communist, and his son Freddi a Social Democrat, the family is splitting up badly, to his sorrow; but he has his crafty reasons to feel that he has protectors among the Nazis, and in all their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other...
...efforts to help Johannes out of captivity, Hero Lanny Budd first gets a half-chance to realize that he is a brave, intelligent, responsible human being. In his effort to save Johannes' son Freddi, he is given still more dangerous opportunities, and meets them halfway. In the closing pages Lanny, tempered beyond any further possibility of being a playboy, sits in the room next to the rescued but ruined Freddi, silently crying, and realizing, of his life and of Europe: "He had traveled here and there over its surface, and everywhere had seen men diligently plowing the soil...