This collection of stories about the Nazi era has just been translated into English, although the first story (which gives the collection its title) has been a mainstay of school and university curricula in Germany for years. It is a dream-like narrative about a little boy who is obsessed by the tale of a yellow car driven by knife-wielding Jews in search of small children to kidnap and devour. After this unsetting introduction, the sequence continues with stories about the boy’s development as a member of the ultra-nationalist ethnic German minority within the former Czechoslovakia. The boy wins a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school in Vienna, run by Jesuits, but this experience does not impair his devotion to Hitler. He is back at school in Reichenberg when the Nazis inv