TY  - BOOK
AU  - Littell,Jonathan
AU  - Mandell,Charlotte
TI  - The kindly ones: a novel 
SN  - 9780061353451 (hbk.)
AV  - PQ3939.L58 .B513 2009
U1  - 843/.92 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper
KW  - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
KW  - Schutzstaffel
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei
KW  - Nazis
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Bisexual men
KW  - Germany
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Originally published as: Les beinveillantes. Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2006; Received the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the year 2009
N2  - Fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former Nazi officer who survived the war and has reinvented himself, many years later, as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews in graphic, disturbingly precise detail from the dark and disturbing point of view of the executioner rather than the victim. During the period from June 1941 through April 1945, Max is posted to Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus; he is present at the Battle of Stalingrad, at Auschwitz and Cracow; he visits occupied Paris and lives through the chaos of the final days of the Nazi regime in Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures, such as Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008030788.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008030788-b.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008030788-d.html
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