Support WBURFictionalized 'Kindly' Nazi Creates A StirPlayDownload AudioFrank BrowningMarch 08, 2009 ShareJonathan Littell says he modeled the main character in The Kindly Ones after himself: "The basic idea is, what would I have been had I been born German in 1913 instead of an American boy in America in 1967," he says. (Gallimard)