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Following his visit to a concentration camp, J.D. Salinger suffered a mental collapse related to PTSD. He thereafter entertained very odd ideas about the Nazis and the US Army.
Eberhard Alsen is a professor emeritus of English at Cortland College, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including J.D. Salinger and the Nazis, A Reader's Guide to J.D. Salinger, and Salinger's Glass Stories as a Composite Novel.