Slaughterhouse-Five Howard W. Campbell, Jr. Quotes

"You're going to have to fight the Communists sooner or later," said Campbell. "Why not get it over with now?" (8.3.3)

Howard W. Campbell, Jr. is a fictional American Nazi who leaves the United States for Germany because he thinks Americans hate the poor. Whatever you may think of this suggestion, his primary appearance in this book is to try to convince the American POWs to join the German army to fight a common enemy. He is preaching expediency: the end justifies the means.