IRE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
34—Friday, August 11, 1972
Arnold Novel Ex poses Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazi dangers may not be as
marked as indicated in "Forests
of the Night." the new novel by
Arnold. published by Scrib ,
ners Yet, it serves as a w arning
that in many German hearts there
remains a loyalty to the Fuehrer
and the Ititlerite legacies have not
been erased.
Arnold's new novel is intriguing.
It holds the reader's interest with
great effectiveness and the plot is
splendidly- woven. It is the story of
Peter Bauer, who, as a child, was
smuggled out of Germany by an
SS commander who disapproved of
the anti-Semitism of the Germans
in power. Peter became an Ameri-
can citizen and he returned to his
native city of Wurzburg in an
effort to learn how his mother had
died. lie knew that his father, his
sister and two brothers were mur-
dered in concentration camps. But
his mother's passing was a mys-
tery.
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by Austrian President
Reflections" is ex-
"A Bias
cusably a prejudice in support of
an author's recollections of inter-
esting experiences_
The plot revolves around his ex-
periences, the people he met and
from whom he sought to get the
facts, his eventual reaching at the
truth that his mother, who was
also to have been rescued, waited
until she could hide her husband's
favorite painting. A Nazi acquired
.1 and then turned her over to the
Gestapo, and she, too, w as mur-
dered.
The neo Nazi gang learned of 1ms
search and it also learned that
Peter Bailer served in the British
air force. which he joined as a
youngster. They learned that he
was among those who bombed
Wurzhurg, and destroyed it. The
SS man who rescued him was
murdered. The taxi man he had
employed — a man who had pre-
vented Nazi cruelties in the Hitler
days in a quest for justice, also
was killed. Bauer himself was kid-
naped. tortured and left to die in
an old church. Ile was rescued as
a young girl wandered into the
church ruins and found him or he
would have perished in a matter of
hours.
The trial against those who tor-
tured him, the role of a police
commander who had a sense of
justice and who felt that the at-
tempt to murder Bauer was an
affront to Germany even more
than to a visiting American who,
as a former pilot, had bombed his
city. The prosecutor tried to quash
the case. The defense did not hide
its contempt for Americans. for
enemy Allies. for justice. But the
just and insistent efforts of the
justice-seeking police officer
triumphed.
There was another attempt on
Peter's life. In the guise of circus
animals and dressing him as a
clown. the. neo-Nazi gangsters at-
tempted to kidnap him again.
Thanks to the police chief and the
sister of the Nazi gang with whom
Peter had a brief love affair, he
was rescued. It all gave additional
impetus to the well-woven theme
in this novel.
Perhaps the novel's significance
lies as much in the fact that it
introduces many atoning Germans
to as great an extent as it deals
with the beasts and those who still
pursue the Nazi policies. It is not
a one-sided story. It portrays the
German situation with great skill.
It warns against the emerging neo-
Nazism. while also acknowledging
that adherence to a sense- of jus-
tice remains in certain German
• ranks and that during the Hitler
era there were some Germans who
did not endorse the terror.
Arnold's "Forests of the Night"
is as powerful as his earlier "A
Night of Watching." It's a good
story and the reader won't move
away from it until he will have
finished it from cover to cover-
, that's its intriguing power.
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Nathan Perlmutter. in this vol-
ume published by Arlington House,
provides. as he states in a supple-
mentary definition of his literary
efforts, "The Confessions of an
Incipient Old Jew. -
reception marking the
At
opening of the 1972 Salzburg
Festival, Marguerite Kozenn ('ha-
jes was greeted by President
Franz Jonas of Austria. Mrs.
Chajes, on her visits in Austria.
holds a music professorship in
Vienna. In the photo are Dr.
Heinz H. Rennau, chief of the
Salzburg Tourist Office, and
Mrs. Rennau. Artists who will
participate in this year's Salz-
burg Festival include David and
Igor Oistrach and Itzhak Perl-
man, violinists; and the follow-
ing pianists: Emil and Elena Gi-
leis, Shure Cherkassky, Alexis
Weissenberg, Irwin Gage and
Joseph Kalichstein of Israel. the
26-year-old musician who has al-
ready gained international fame.
The works of Marc Chagall will
be among the paintings of no-
tables to be exhibited in their
originals at Salzburg.
By "old" he means, of course,
that he had gotten older to he
able to address himself to the
younger generation and he states:
"If young Jews are the mirror in
which I have watched myself grow
older Jewishly, I have noted it
elsewhere too. In my intolerance
of intolerance, for instance, when
I was young: in my deepening
,ense of community with those
.Is-wish exotics who live west of
the Hudson River; in my re-
sponses, and man and boy, to
i Israel."
Yippie Conspirator
Satirizes the '50s
That incorrigible and outra-
geously witty entente terrible of
the underground press, Paul Kras-
sner, has satirized and offended
just about everyone in his time.
Along with Jules Feiffer, Mort
Sahl, Lenny Bruce. Ken Kesey
and Joseph Heller, Krassner
erupted on the scene during the
cool quiescence of the late '50s
when he began publishing his
magazine the Realist.
It was in the Realist that Kras-
sner, oft described as a literati
Jerry Rubin, produced some of
our most biting satire on politics
and politicos, sex, civil rights,
television, films, the country and
hang-ups in general.
Now. Krassner has gathered a
mind-blowing cross-section of the
- most outrageous and uproarious
writings which have appeared in
his quasi-underground magazine
from its infancy in 1958 right up
• to the present. These hoaxes and
observations are served up Kras-
' sner-fashion with generous por-
' lions of humor. controversy and
insight which mirror the times —
and how they've changed! "Ne-
groes have become blacks; fuzz
has become pig: Carl Chessman
has become Charlie Manson; Elvis
Presley has become Mick Jagger;
Governor Faubus has become Gov-
' ernor Wallace; ghetto slums have
• become inner cities; Sixth Ave.
has become the Avenue of the
Americas; and Spiro Agnew has
• become a household word."
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In this odyssey, Krassner recalls
the naivete of the early beatniks.
He continues through the hippie
hey-day of the '60s, and finally
emerges as a full-fledged Yippie
in "The Birth of the Yippie Con-
spiracy," published by G. P. Put-
nam's and Sons.
The accounting department of
United Communit Services (1:CS),
located in the WSU area, has is-
sued a call for a volunteer book-
keeper or accountant for one reg-
ular day a week. to work directly
with the department director. Call
Floyd Plowman at 833-0622, ext.
64, to volunteer help.
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Anti-Defamation League. Now he
is vice president of Brandeis Uni-
versity.
His reflections are about the
Nazi period, about anti-Semitism
on many fronts, about American
reactionaries and about the
liberals, about Germany and
Hitler.
the covers a vast area and his
brief items, whether about "South-
erners and Jews" or "The Six-Day
War" carry with them messages
that justify reflecting.
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, The well-known Lithuanian rabbi
of the 16th Century, Rabbi Solomon
Luria, states that the Bar Mitzva
feast is as much a religious act
as any feast could be. In the liter-
ature of the Kabala, the feast at
the Bar Mitzva is compared to
the wedding meal (Zohar Hadash,
Genesis 15b). Some commentar-
ies trace this back to the feast
that Abraham made for his son
Isaac (Genesis 21:8) claiming that
the occasion was Isaac's 13th birth-
day (i.e. Bar Mitzva). The author
of the well-known treatise "Ha-
vath fair" expresses the opinion
that the Bar Mitzva feast assumes
a religious character only when the
Bar Mitzva boy delivers a learned
discourse. Generally speaking, the
feast of the Bar Mitzva is a sym-
bol of reaffirming the Covenant
on the part of the young man.
If the atmosphere of the feast is
one of reverence and inspiration
it is indeed a religious experience.
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