response to the Hoffman question

What significance does the Holocaust seem to have for Hoffman's writing? 

The Holocaust has a huge significance to Hoffman's writing because, he had trauma when he heard the Italian air force bomb the Jewish settlement leading to many Jews dying. Hoffman describes how the world had torture when Adolf was born and how there was 1,889 years to live. He feels that the world was ending when Adolf was in reign controlling people and Germany. He also brings up the Holocaust as well because, he blended this situation to his mother, who died when he was a young child.