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This story stabs into Spitzen-on-the-Dein and its people at various times during world wars and an American occupation. The U. S. military government is administered by a venereal-diseased motorcyclist named Leevey. The book's narrator--who only narrates for a dozen-odd pages throughout--eventually kills Leevey, overthrows the occupation, and founds a new Germany...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: To Skin a Fox | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

...this setting The Cannibal's story is told by Zizendorf, a neo-Nazi who plans to free Germany from Leevey, its American overlord. Zizendorf lives in a boarding house run by Madame Stella Snow, who symbolizes the eternal Germany of ruthless energy and strength. Among the other boarders are a hungry duke, a relic of the Kaiser-ruled past; a drunken census taker who personifies perennial German officialdom ready to serve any master; Herr Stintz, the typical "little man" whose futility is expressed in nocturnal tuba-playing, and Jutta, Zizendorf's cowlike mistress, who wants only the warmth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teutonic. Nightmare | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...hrer. To blaze the way for another New Order, Zizendorf murders the unsuspecting Leevey and then beats to death harmless, helpless Herr Stintz, who had discovered the murder. As the census taker follows meekly along, as Madame Snow cheers enthusiastically and Jutta waits in bed, Zizendorf becomes Germany's new Fiihrer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teutonic. Nightmare | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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