Mother Night Chapter 26 Summary

In Which Private Irving Buchanon and Some Others Are Memorialized…

  • Resi and Campbell arrive back at the apartment after dark.
  • Someone has drawn a swastika on Campbell's nameplate.
  • While Resi and Campbell consider the merits of moving to another country to escape the new Nazi fan party Campbell's got, a man walks up to them looking for Campbell.
  • The man holds up a newspaper that has a photo of Campbell staring at the gallows in Ohrdruf.
  • According to the article, the government of Israel is ready to snag Campbell for trial.
  • Before that happens, this guy wants to give Campbell a going-away present.
  • In the form of a beating. One blow offered per friend of the stranger who was killed in Germany during WWII.
  • After a kick to the head knocks Campbell out, the stranger leaves behind a noose.
  • Nice parting shot there, buddy.
  • Here's a fictive fact falling outside of the actual narrative we're in: Lazlo Szombathy, the custodian, finds this noose in the trashcan and later hangs himself with it. Dang.
  • Anyway, Campbell comes to in a room filled with Nazi banners, cheap Christmas decorations, and a pic of Hitler.
  • Campbell's in his undies on a leopard-print bedspread. We couldn't make this stuff up, folks.
  • When Campbell sees the bedspread, he makes a lame joke about a group of people from southwestern Africa colonized by the Dutch.