Costs of being Cassandra

[cardboard_killer]

[80 years ago today] "

• Today, the German government guillotines Elfride Scholz for “undermining morale” by stating that the war is lost. When sentencing her, Court President Roland Freisler declared,

 

“Your brother is unfortunately beyond our reach—you, however, will not escape us.”

 

- Her brother is Erich Maria Remarque, WW-I veteran and author of “All Quiet on the Western Front”. The novel has been banned and publically burned in Germany since 1933, primarily as it is the antithesis of the Nazi mythology that Germany only lost because it was stabbed in the back. Remarque had fled to Switzerland and then to the United States, where he will become a naturalized citizen in 1947.

 

- The 1929 silent and 1930 films are also banned."