Word: wolbricht
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Honest Man. Lind, the son of Austrian Jews who were deported and killed by the Nazis, mocks German pretensions of decency with slapstick caricature in the long title story. Wolbricht, the protagonist, prides himself on his honesty. A one-legged veteran of World War I, he is employed by a Jewish couple to care for their paralytic son, Anton. When the parents are ordered off to an extermination camp, he agrees to take care of Anton in return for the lease to their apartment...
After the parents are carted off, does Wolbricht take the easy course and turn Anton over to the authorities? Certainly not: he is honest. At great trouble to himself, he smuggles the boy to the country in a crate and leaves him alone in a mountain cabin with a three-week supply of food. Anton cannot feed himself, of course, being paralytic, but that is not Wolbricht's problem. Thinking well of himself, he returns to the city to sell the apartment lease. But what's this? A bump on his forehead the size of a pigeon...
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