Looking for the Stranger by Alice Kaplan

Author:Alice Kaplan [Kaplan, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

I am sure you can very well imagine the rest. But it is important for you to know who told me this story. It was a French priest. He said to me, ‘I am ashamed for this man, and I am pleased to think that no French priest would have been willing to make his god abet murder.’ . . . In your country, even the Gods are drafted.12

Here a man of the cloth can be a force for evil or a force for good in the Resistance. The German Chaplain is not a hypocrite by virtue of his situation, as in The Stranger. He is a human like any other, with a political choice to make.

In April 1944, when the Waffen-SS massacred eighty-six men in Ascq, one of several murderous reprisals for Resistance activity, it was Camus, drawing on the techniques of a fiction writer, who found a way to make the readers of Combat feel part of history, and understand the tragedy that might have been theirs. In an underground editorial, he wrote:

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