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Fictionalized 'Kindly' Nazi Creates A Stir

Jonathan Littell says he modeled the main character in <em>The Kindly Ones</em> after himself: &quot;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,&quot; he says. (Gallimard)
Jonathan 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)

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