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March 9, 2007

Books: Mailer scrutinizes evil in form of young Hitler

Power, politics and sex. War and violence. What more could he write about, you might well ask. Now, just turned 84, he has published \”The Castle in the Forest,\” which attempts to engage and scrutinize the nature of evil personified in the life of the young Adolf Hitler. He — Hitler as a youth — ostensibly is the subject of the novel.

Making sense of today’s Jewish Germany

With the fastest-growing Jewish community in Europe, Germany is both a somewhat comfortable haven for recently arrived Jews from the former Soviet Union, and a rather settled home for those Jews (mostly former displaced persons) who ended up there shortly after the war.

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