TY - BOOK AU - Littell,Jonathan AU - Mandell,Charlotte TI - The kindly ones: a novel SN - 9780701181659 AV - PQ3939.L58 B513 2009 U1 - 843/.92 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Chatto and Windus KW - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei KW - Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei KW - Fiction KW - Schutzstaffel KW - Bisexual men KW - Germany KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Nazis KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Atrocities KW - Historical fiction N1 - Originally published as: Les beinveillantes. Paris : âEditions Gallimard, 2006 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, Gèoring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008030788.html UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24135 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008030788-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008030788-d.html ER -