The Damp and the Dry

[rich]

short bio by Jonathan Littell of Belgian fascist Leon Degrelle finally
translated into English coming in September. Wasn't aware Degrelle was
model for Max Aue in the Kindly Ones. Afterword by author of Male Fantasies
is a bonus

rich

https://www.amazon.com/Damp-Dry-Incursion-Fascist-Territory/dp/1682193918

A critical biography of Belgium’s highest-ranking Nazi collaborator, Léon
Degrelle, who fought with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front during the
Second World War and served as inspiration for the protagonist of Jonathan
Littell’s bestselling, Prix Goncourt–winning novel The Kindly Ones ([Gallimard
2006] HarperCollins 2009). Originally published in French as Le sec et
l’humide: Une brève incursion en territoire fasciste (Gallimard 2008) and
translated into Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Catalan, and now
English, The Damp and the Dry is a critical case study of a fascist true
believer who was supported by both Hitler and Mussolini during the Second
World War and later sheltered by Franco in Spain. Littell pays close
attention to Degrelle’s autobiographical writings, especially his account
of fighting on the Eastern Front, The Russian Campaign, and uncovers an
“anatomy of fascist discourse,” developing on the theories of German
sociologist Klaus Theweleit, whose Afterword follows the text.