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August 4, 2022

A Great American Jewish Writer Examines Her Youthful Correspondence with a German Soldier Who Fought for Hitler

“I hate no race.”

Having been placed in a German class against her will as a high-school student in 1942, Cynthia Ozick continued studying the language and its literature in college. It was then, just after World War II had ended, that she began her correspondence with a German named Karl Gustav Specht:

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August 4, 2022

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