[A German who "had fought for the Wehrmacht and was captured by the Red Army during the battle of Stalingrad," and lives in East Germany:]
"I hung out flags for the communists in the twenties," Pint's father said, "I hung out flags for the Nazis in the thirties. After the war I hung out flags for the communists again. Now it's all over with me and flags."
--from Zoo Station, by Ian Walker
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