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How Salinger’s Nervous Breakdown Twisted His View of Nazis

EXCERPT

Following his visit to a concentration camp, J.D. Salinger suffered a mental collapse related to PTSD. He thereafter entertained very odd ideas about the Nazis and the US Army.

Eberhard Alsen
Eberhard Alsen
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Eberhard Alsen

Eberhard Alsen

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