Uri hates Jackboots! Jackboots pick on Jews like him. He is not  pretending to be one.   He is a double agent trying to stay alive. he has red hair so he is  not detecte…d in "heaven" (Warsaw) and he works at the blue camel  hotel and in the end SPOILER ALERT!!!! Uri pretends to shoot Misha  in the head but then moves the gun and shoots his ear to keep him  safe as he said in the book "someday i will have to kill you to  save your life". He did this to appease the jack boots so they will  leave him alone and to save him. (MORE)