Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (2009, Hardcover)

No regrets for his role in WWII challenges readers to "wear his shoes."

Littell as the author takes the reader on a semi-fictional journey through Germany during the war. It begins with his personal feelings about his orders and superiors. This serves as the basis for his "more extremist" actions against implementing the "practical hygienic program" of exterminating the Jews. Written to, it seems, for convicing would be right wingers of many justifications for actions he may have participated in or observed, that extremism sometimes is justifiable. This rationale also coincides cloesly with other historical accounts such as Harold Keith Thompson another SS officer stationed in the U.S.Read full review

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