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...Kaputt. "Shortly after the [Russian] occupation Elli, Hanna and Margret were visited by [Red army] soldiers, who told them to go away with them immediately for three days' work ... Agnes would have been taken in the same way, but the Russians who came for her were apparently unnerved by the screams of the children who saw her going. Next day, however . . . she was arrested...
...Frankfurt, one operator, wearily toting his worn leather briefcase, which is the money dealer's badge of badge of office, mourned: "Der Schwarzmarkt ist kaputt." In Paris, a fellow sufferer announced that he would have to "go into the picture business," i.e., peddle French postcards. "Not much money in that trade," he complained, "but we have to make a living...
...enlist 25,000 selected D.P.s in the U.S. Army called for no Legion, but for enlistment in regular Army organizations. It did provide for citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity ahead. I want to become an American." An ex-French...
Subtitled "A Fictitious Reminiscence," the book obviously is not all fiction. Europeans will easily recognize Dario as the high-ranking Fascist journalist, Curzio Malaparte, and so will U.S. readers of Malaparte's curious autobiography Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11). As the profile of a likable opportunist, the novel is convincing, but as a study in the dialectics of Fascism it probes no deeper than the good manners...
...strength of his past record, but turned him loose when OWI-man Percy Winner, once with I.N.S. in Rome, guaranteed his good conduct. He then toured Germany on a special mission for the Allied Psychological Warfare Branch. Now ex-Fascist Malaparte lives well in his flashy Capri villa. Kaputt, whatever the doubts as to its reliability, is a great hit in Italy, has become must reading in fashionable clubs and salons...