The best they could? I don’t think so.” He paused as if to edit his woes and select the most telling ones. “Did you notice how they treated the offic… - Norman Mailer

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The best they could? I don’t think so.” He paused as if to edit his woes and select the most telling ones. “Did you notice how they treated the officers? They slept in staterooms when we were jammed in the hold like pigs. It’s to make them feel superior, a chosen group. That’s the same device Hitler uses when he makes the Germans think they’re superior.” Roth felt as if he were on the edge of something profound.