The Ministry of Fear

his father had brought back from the war as a souvenir. Despite my parents' warnings not to upset my grandmother, whose father, mother, and younger sisters (I later learned) perished at Auschwitz, I would often streak through the apartment in her presence, wearing the flag as a kind of superman cape. At the time, I knew nothing about the Holocaust. I was also addicted to watching World War II movies on TV and, as a wannabe comic artist, drew more pictures of Nazis than Americans because their uniforms were better. The black SS uniform with the silver Death's Head on the hat and red, black, and white swastika armband made the entire costume so fearsome. Sadly, I had no idea how deeply the Nazi flag, emblems, and those uniforms frightened my grandmother because she never said a word

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