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Richard Wagner wrote to the Jew, Felix Mendelssohn that he should stop trying to write German music. Interestingly, the Jew, Joseph Heller who wrote "Catch 22" tried (in my opinion to emulate the German, Erich Maria Remarque) who wrote "All Quiet on the Western front." All Quiet on the Western front is a must read for every young man. It is literature in its totality. Catch 22 is just a shabby cartoon by comparison. It's interesting that Wagner had it right about Jews. They can only imitate western civilization. It's not in them to get the complete essence of our culture.
Heller's book was intended to be a satire. Irwin Shaw's "The Young Lions" and Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" were supposed to be The Great American War Novel. ((Shaw)) and ((Mailer)) painted the WW II US Army as filled with fascists, Shaw in the lower ranks, Mailer higher up. Shaw had American soldiers beating up his Jewish protagonist.
BTW Hitler had "All Quiet on the Western Front" banned (it was part of the Great Book Burning) as "anti-German," with the full approval of your hero, Rosenberg.