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by: Renee C. Fountain | 01.05.09 | filed: Social Discourse

angels.jpgLike many of you, I have been reading about the memoir fallout of Herman Rosenblat’s Angel At The Fence, a partially fabricated love story memoir cultivated from Mr. Rosenblat’s imprisonment in a sub-camp of Buchenwald. The cause of all the commotion? Mr. Rosenblat’s unwavering assertion that a young girl (who he later found and married) threw apples over the fence to him every day for seven months. My question is why are people so upset? Why do they feel it was a personal affront to them that the author added a few fictional aspects?