The Kindly Ones
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, published by Harper Collins on March 3, 2009, is a fictional memoir that delves into the life of Dr. Max Aue, a former Nazi officer who has transformed himself into a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern France. This edition spans 983 pages and is presented in English. Through Max’s perspective, readers encounter the harrowing realities of World War II and the Nazi genocide, as he reflects on his past as both an intellectual and a cold-blooded assassin.
In this narrative, Max Aue’s experiences unfold from June 1941 to April 1945, taking him through significant historical events and locations, including the Battle of Stalingrad, Auschwitz, and occupied Paris. The book presents a chilling exploration of the war’s atrocities, narrated from the viewpoint of the executioner rather than the victims. As Max interacts with real historical figures such as Eichmann and Hitler, the story intertwines elements of horror, military history, and the occult, offering a complex portrayal of a man shaped by his dark past.
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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, Göring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself.
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