The Nazi and the Barber

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name = The Nazi and the Barber
title_orig = Der Nazi & der Friseur
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image_caption = German edition (2004)
author = Edgar Hilsenrath
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = 1971
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media_type = Print (hardcover)
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"The Nazi and the Barber" (also published as "The Nazi Who Lived As a Jew", in the German original "Der Nazi & der Friseur") of the German-Jewish writer Edgar Hilsenrath is a grotesque novel about the Holocaust during the time of National Socialism in Germany. The work uses the perpetrator's perspective telling the biography of the SS mass murder Max Schulz, who after World War II assumes a Jewish identity and finally emigrates to Israel in order to escape prosecution in Germany.

Because of chosing the perpetrator's perspective the author had difficulties in publishing the book in Germany. It was first published in the U.S. in 1971 by Doubleday, one of the largest book publishing companies in the world, and the in Germany in 1977. [Manfred Rieger: [http://www2.hs-fulda.de/hilsenrath/friseur2.php "Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Schuld. Edgar Hilsenraths grotesk-realistischer Roman über einen Nazi, der Jude wurde"] (German), retrieved June 4, 2008] The original manuscript is written in German.

External Links

* [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1952836,00.html Bestselling German-Jewish Author Satirizes the Holocaust] , Deutsche Welle, April 9, 2006

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