Slaughterhouse 5: Campbell the Juxtaposition

"He was Howard W. Campbell, an American who had become a Nazi." Page 162

       This man is a walking juxtaposition. He approaches the American prisoners in his custom made uniform. He sports a cowboy hat, boots, a red, white, and blue swastika, and a silhouette of Abraham Lincoln. As he describes his uniform to the prisoners of war, he speaks with pride of the accomplishments of the Americans. However, this idiot is fighting for the Nazis. What kind of man preaches of the wonders of America while sporting a swastika? Derby was right in calling this man a snake. yet more interesting than his lack of patriotism is the contradiction in his message, of both American pride and honor in fighting for the Nazis, and American enemy.