The Kindly Ones and Night of the Generals (1967)

[rich]

fwiw...

i wonder if Littell watched Night of the Generals, a somewhat stiff
production of a German german serial killer on the loose during the war (and
particularly around the time of the assassination attempt on Hitler),
(1967)--a major investigates.

both book and film focus on a weird, sexually perverted SS officer

Both book and film involve the (in some ways absurd) investigation of a
criminal murder during a time of larger-than-life, bigger, obscuring all
others events, political. state sponsored violence/mass murder

The major played by Omar Sharif specifically invokes the Euminides and the
justice thereof

Peter O'Toole is simply wonderfully evil as the SS General (almost ranks
with his role(s) in The Ruling Class--crack!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Generals (Gore Vidal with
unacknowledged writing credit)
rich
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