The first few chapters seem to talk about random people and scenes. With so many obstacles and too few people to trust, his success seems far-fetched. From the very beginning, he is set up to fail. His country has now labeled him a terrorist due to his origins. Perhaps the best thing about this book is the unconventional protagonist: A recovering junkie who got hooked after getting injured in service of his country. The direct speech by the members of the white nationalist group is as backward, gross, and infuriating as you would expect from a racist skinhead. To make it all so authentic, he throws in Jewish terminologies such as Yeshiva and Yarmulke. The way he describes the action-packed scenes helps create vivid imagery in your mind. Harold Benjamin presents the story in simple, straightforward language. Now, the protagonist, a homeless American-Jew war veteran, has to stop this group before it finds a way to end all other races. The conservative president has affiliations with a powerful and wealthy white nationalist group. Judenrein, by Harold Benjamin, is a story about an elaborate plan for a fourth Reich called Reichsadler only this time, it is not happening in Nazi Germany but the US. But we should not underestimate the drive of a “higher cause.” With human rights protected by the constitution and the UN, it seems improbable that one race would annihilate the others.

It would go from building a wall at the Mexican border to coming up with creative ways of rounding up non-white Americans. Imagine what would happen if a White Nationalist group infiltrated the highest office in the country, the white house.

In fact, people seem to be radicalizing: white nationalists and Neo-Nazi movements are springing up everywhere. It’s 2020, many years after the Civil Rights Movement and racism is still an issue.

Judenrein by Harold Benjamin