Mess with the meter of humor, and it’s immediately obvious something is misrepresented.

“The Giving Tree” as a model for how a woman (or anyone) should be is like saying that same soldier sets an example.

When I read the book again these 30-some years later, my only brief reservation — that it should somehow have been funny, that funny might have saved it from its destiny of weird co-optings — faded.

while I might have gained in knowledge, I had gained nothing at all in penetra

Nazis apart from less efficient predecessors was their twentieth-century access to the instruments of industrialized warfare and annihilation, and a propaganda machine that excluded all other avenues of information for an essentially captive German population.

Jewish prisoners who assist the Nazis in killing and disposing of their fellow-Jews—“vultures of the crematory”