Reply #14: It reminds one of Howard W. Campbell

[Jack Rabbit]

The Americans in the slaughterhouse had a very interesting visitor two days before Dresden was destroyed. He was Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American who had become a Nazi. Campbell was the one who had written the monograph about the shabby behavior of American prisioners of war. He wasn't doing more research about prisoners now. He had come to the slaughterhouse to recruit men for a German military unit call "The Free America Corps." Campbell was the inventor and commander of the unit, which was supposed to fight only on the Russian front.

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Campbell was an ordinary-looking man, but he was extravagantly costumed in a uniform of his own design. He wore a white ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots decorated with swastikas and stars. He was sheathed in a blue body stocking which had yellow stripes running from his armpits to his ankles. His shoulder patch was a shilhouette of Abraham Lincoln's profile on a field of pale green. He had a broad armband was red, with a blue swastika in a circle of white . . . .

"Blue is for the American sky," Campbell was saying. "White is for the race the pioneered the continent, drained the swamps and cleared the forests and built the roads and bridges. Red is for the blood of American patriots which was shed so gladly in years gone by."

-- From Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut