The Jew car - Franz Fhmann

Originally published in 1962, Franz Fhmann's autobiographical story cycle The Jew Car
is a classic of German short fiction and an unparalleled examination of
the psychology of National Socialism. Each story presents a snapshot of
a personal and historical turning point in the life of the narrator,
beginning with childhood anti-Semitism and moving to a youthful
embrace-and then an ultimate rejection-of Nazi ideology. With scathing
irony and hallucinatory intensity, reflections on the nature of memory,
and the individual experience of history, the cycle acquires the weight
of a novel.

"Fhmann's work, beginning with The Jew Car,
can be read as a great literary self-analysis in the spirit of Freud.
Through his work, he not only became conscious of his own thinking as it
was seduced by totalitarianism, he also became capable of describing
the mechanisms of a fascist upbringing with striking poetic power,
transcending all theory." -Die Welt, on the German edition