OK, JOE!
In September 1944, the writer Louis Guilloux took part in the trial of a black American soldier in Brittany, France. The GI is sentenced to death by hanging. This affair haunted the novelist for 30 years. In 1976, he told it in a short novel: ‘OK, Joe!’ He revealed a taboo aspect of World War II – the abuses of the US Army against civilian populations, racial segregation, and the selective punishments the army inflicts on its soldiers. But his story goes unnoticed...
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