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Joan Lingards 1980 novel The File on Fräulein Berg examines how during times of war, children can easily and dangerously be capable of nasty, abusive and even borderline evil behaviour, as they imitate their elders and the general mood of a nation at war (and that sometimes, children actually go even further, as what their parents and other adults often only express as opinions and feelings, the children then turn into actions, into deeds). Set in 1944 Belfast, The File on Fräulein Berg focusses on three teenage girls who have somehow convinced themselves that their high school German teacher is a Nazi spy. And thus, Kate, Sally and Harriet strive to make Fräulein Bergs life miserable with their misguided rabid nationalism, for all intents and purposes acting very much like spies themselves, the very vice of which they and WRONGFULLY have accused Fräulein Berg (who is, in fact, a Jewish refugee and the only member of her family to have escaped the horrors of the Holocaust). Although Joan Lingard deftly and with an understated, yet always palpable sense of outrage exposes dangerous and empty nationalism (in both adults and children), personally, I think there should be somewhat more direct and overt specific criticism levelled at the three main protagonists (or perhaps, considering how the three girls harass and continuously spy on poor Fräulein Berg, the three main antagonists). For even if they are, indeed, to a certain point imitating the adults around them, their parents, their teachers etc., it is NOT the adults but Kate, Sally and Harriet who actively harass, monitor and track their German teacher (turning their elders feelings and opinions about Germany and the Germans into actions and nasty, dirty deeds). The three girls do not think, they simply act out, and even in the future, even during the epilogue, adult Sally still kind of seems to try to partially downplay the seriousness of how they acted as teenagers, how they acted towards Fräulein Berg (although realising that spying on Fräulein Berg was bigoted and hateful, Sally almost to a point justifies their behaviour as teenagers and sees it as simply a silly girlish prank, mostly and supposedly because Kate, Harriet and she, like so many others in wartime Britain, were inundated with and by propaganda and were told, were taught to despise and mistrust anything German). It seems and feels rather painfully as though Sally is making a bit of an excuse, and while I do NOT believe that Joan Lingard is in any way justifying that excuse as acceptable, I also feel that there is not enough personal criticism presented. The three girls actively and with very much malicious intent stalk their German teacher on a continuous basis and that they were exposed to propaganda against Germans, sorry, but that does not take away from their actions and from their personal responsibility and self achieved culpability.Also, finally, and especially for me as a German Canadian (and as such, someone who was often relentlessly bullied and verbally harangued when my family immigrated to Canada in the late 70s, being called a Nazi simply because of my background, my being German), there (at least in my opinion) does remain a strong and rather uncomfortable undercurrent present in The File on Fräulein Berg, namely that if Fräulein Berg were, in fact, not Jewish, the bigoted and nasty attitudes and spying, the stalking ways of the three teenagers could, or perhaps even would be at least possibly and partially justified, perhaps even acceptable. And thus, while having Fräulein Berg appear as a Jewish refugee (a victim of the Nazis) makes the harassment and nastiness she encounters from Kate and her gang all the more immediate and heart-breaking, it does, although likely inadvertently, leave the rather unfortunate impression that a WWII stalking and monitoring of a German teacher in Britain who is not Jewish would be at least somewhat and possibly acceptable and appropriate (or at least more so).Now that being all said, and even with my minor issues regarding this novel, or rather certain aspects thereof, The File on Fräulein Berg remains most highly recommended, and presents in and of itself a strongly articulated anti-war message, and an equally strong proclamation against any and all forms of rabid nationalism, as well as the propaganda, the abhorrent behaviours and actions that can so easily stem from this (and how it can and does especially negatively affect impressionable children, causing them to behave in nastily loathsome, and even potentially dangerously criminal fashions).
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