![]() Army as being “edgy with treason” and calling the war “a tricky, dreary farce.” His breakdown also seems to have caused a change in his personality. ![]() Ernest Hemingway wrote that Salinger told him, “he hated the Army and the war.”Ī week after the end of the war in Europe in 1945, Salinger had a nervous breakdown and wrote an unhinged letter describing his attitude toward the U.S. Eventually Salinger started to be less critical toward the Nazis than toward the U.S. The first signs of that non-judgmental attitude begin to appear in his fiction shortly after D-Day. That attitude changed from initial unconcern about the Nazis, toward a gung-ho “Kill the Nazis” attitude, and from there to a final non-judgmental stance. Salinger and the Nazis deals with Salinger’s changing attitude toward the Nazis as expressed in his fiction, letters, and conversations between his first story (1940) and The Catcher in the Rye (1951).
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