Mephisto in the Third Reich: Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany
Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein, "Mephisto in the Third Reich: Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany"
English | ISBN: 3110379384 | 2015 | 171 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
English | ISBN: 3110379384 | 2015 | 171 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
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.