He became incredibly violent. You saw it in his plans for vengeance after the war, when he wanted to kill six million Germans by poisoning the water of German cities. To an extent everyone involved had a little bit of Isser Schmidt in them -- Abba and the others learned it in the woods. Right or wrong, they said that the war remade them in its image.
"Rich Cohen" is an United States/American non-fiction writer. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair (magazine)/Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone magazines. His works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, and have been collected in the The Best American Essays/Best American Essays series. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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