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The Interpreter: Writing and Historical Sources Wednesday, October 26, 2005 The American Army executed 70 of its own soldiers during WWII. Almost all of them were black, in an army that was overwhelmingly white. One Frenchman witnessed the injustice, and never forgot. Alice Kaplan, Professor of Romance Studies, Literature,
and History
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at Duke University will speak with students about the research she
conducted for her recent book The Interpreter (August 2005). Her
book examines the differing fates of African-American and White
US soldiers charged with committing crimes against civilians in
France during World War II. Professor Kaplan's other books include
Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual
Life (1986); French Lessons (1993) and The Collaborator: The Trial
and Execution of Robert Brasillach (2000), which won the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize in History.|
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