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Made into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1996 film]] directed by Keith Gordon (''Film/BackToSchool, Film/TheChocolateWar'') and starring Creator/NickNolte, Creator/SherylLee, Creator/AlanArkin, and Creator/JohnGoodman. It's quite faithful to the source material.

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Made into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1996 film]] directed by Keith Gordon Creator/KeithGordon (''Film/BackToSchool, Film/TheChocolateWar'') and starring Creator/NickNolte, Creator/SherylLee, Creator/AlanArkin, and Creator/JohnGoodman. It's quite faithful to the source material.
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*SubparSupremacist: Lionel Jones and the other Neo-Nazis who seek out Campbell's support and friendship are pathetic and ridiculous rather than menacing. One of them was so frail that he died of a heart attack after walking up a flight of steps, another is a black man who likes dressing up in Nazi regalia and calls himself "The Black Fuhrer of Harlem".
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*GoneHorriblyRight: Campbell's ruse of [[TheMole posing as a Nazi propagandist while spying for the US]] worked so well that he became a hero to Neo-Nazis and a pariah to everyone else after the war.
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Made into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1996 film]] directed by Keith Gordon (''Film/BackToSchool, Film/TheChocolateWar'') and starring Creator/NickNolte, Creator/SherylLee, and Creator/JohnGoodman. It's quite faithful to the source material.

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Made into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1996 film]] directed by Keith Gordon (''Film/BackToSchool, Film/TheChocolateWar'') and starring Creator/NickNolte, Creator/SherylLee, Creator/AlanArkin, and Creator/JohnGoodman. It's quite faithful to the source material.

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* CrapsackWorldCrapsackWorld: As is usually the case in Vonnegut novels, with an emphasis on how corruption, dishonesty, and political fanaticism have made the world so.
* CreatorCameo: In TheFilmOfTheBook, Creator/KurtVonnegut appears briefly as a by-stander who pauses to stare at Howard Campbell as the latter just stops and stands still on the sidewalk all day.
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* PositiveDiscrimination: Averted. One of the people Campbell encounters is the Black Führer, who is an African American who sided with Japan during the war and dreams of dropping atomic bombs on anyone who isn't black or Japanese. [[HypocriticalHumor Especially the damn Chinese! Who he considered white, because he doesn't like them.]]

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Made into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1996 film]] directed by Keith Gordon (''Film/BackToSchool, Film/TheChocolateWar'') and starring Creator/NickNolte. It's not bad, and quite faithful to the source material.

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Made into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1996 film]] directed by Keith Gordon (''Film/BackToSchool, Film/TheChocolateWar'') and starring Creator/NickNolte. Creator/NickNolte, Creator/SherylLee, and Creator/JohnGoodman. It's not bad, and quite faithful to the source material.



* BlackAndGreyMorality

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* BlackAndGreyMoralityBlackAndGreyMorality: The book explores how morally responsible Campbell was for his words and actions while posing as a Nazi collaborator, even if they were part of an espionage ruse.
* BoomerangBigot: Howard Sterling Wilson "The Black Fuhrer of Harlem." He willingly associates with white Neo-Nazis who despise Black people.
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Not to be confused with Marsha Norman's play '''night, Mother'', or the film adaptation starring Creator/SissySpacek and Creator/AnneBancroft.

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Not to be confused with Marsha Norman's play '''night, Mother'', or the film adaptation starring Creator/SissySpacek and Creator/AnneBancroft.
''Theatre/NightMother''.
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Made into a film directed by Keith Gordon (''Film/BackToSchool, Film/TheChocolateWar'') and starring Nick Nolte in 1996. It's not bad, and quite faithful to the source material.

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Made into a film [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1996 film]] directed by Keith Gordon (''Film/BackToSchool, Film/TheChocolateWar'') and starring Nick Nolte in 1996.Creator/NickNolte. It's not bad, and quite faithful to the source material.

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