German Empire: With ultimate commitment and supreme sacrifice [Online-Abo]

“The people, always surprised by events, willingly went to war against the enemies of their masters.” Heinrich Mann foresaw a future war in his novel “The Subject,” which was prepared through the mythicization of the society depicted and caricatured in the novel. Publication in the Munich magazine, which began in January 1914, was abruptly stopped when the war broke out in August.¹ No …