Mailer's Young Hitler Novel Angers Germans
The novel was attacked by Salomon Korn of Germany's Central Council of Jews ("art will never achieve an understanding" of Hitler); Mailer called the claim that he used Hitler's background to explain the extermination of the Jews "cheap and hateful."
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The novel was attacked by Salomon Korn of Germany’s Central Council of Jews (“art will never achieve an understanding” of Hitler); Mailer called the claim that he used Hitler’s background to explain the extermination of the Jews “cheap and hateful.”