The Battle of the Ink-Drawn Flag
Natan Shaḥam
1948
He had traveled to Germany once, where he visited a displaced-persons camp. He was to meet Party members in one of the small Bavarian towns, and when he arrived at the “camp,” it turned out to be a four-story barracks, bulky and insufferably filthy. Several families crowded into one room under conditions that epitomized all that is iniquitous and…
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