Mephisto in the Third Reich · Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany
- Authors
- Barasch Rubinstein, Emanuela
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Oldenbourg
- ISBN
- 9783110379389
- Date
- 2014-11-17T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.94 MB
- Lang
- en
The association of Nazism with the symbol of ultimate evil - the devil - can be found in the works of Klaus and Thomas Mann, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Rolf Hochhuth. He appears either as Satan of the Judeo-Christian tradition, or as Goethe's Mephisto. Barasch-Rubinstein looks into this phenomenon and analyzes the premise that the image of the devil had a substantial impact on Germans' acceptance of Nazi ideas.