100 days 100 short stories:: story 57

story: Those Are as Brothers

author: Nancy Hale

year: 1942

where: in the sky, near Chicago

note: started this story on the other side of the Atlantic before falling asleep

a line: “She was sorry for him because he was a refugee and because he had been in a concentration camp in Germany, and it was necessary to be kind to those who had suffered under that Hitler, but a Jew was a Jew; there were right German names and wrong German names; Fräulein’s name was Strasser.”





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