“…They C \-cre not burdened with any sense of fate, fear, doubt, the past, and hopelessness like the German boys. (Koeppen, 1980: 183; translation by the author) conditionally affirmative view from the perspective of a German girl lus une yet in the very early post-war period, opinions were not is a typica ° _ wavercd between respect and admiration on the one uniform V ^onis,'mont and suspicion on the other. Again Koeppen vividly illustrates the anxieties attached to American femininity and the multiracial nation o f car drivers from the German perspective:…”