It also exposes the ways in which the Catholic Church and the fascist state engendered fear and promoted discrimination. The novel demonstrates the nature of difference and how policies of exclusion divide a community. The advent of Nazism provides the context for an in-depth analysis of certain universal psychological tendencies, chief among which are the search for identity through group membership, the desire for social acceptance, and the fear of ostracism. The novel conveys the horrors of Nazism and the Holocaust as these become apparent in the small town. The novel is an intimate look at what it was like for ordinary people to live through the rise of Adolf Hitler and the devastation wrought by the Third Reich. Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi, is the story of a dwarf who lives in the fictional small town of Burgdorf, Germany, through the first half of the twentieth century.
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