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History influenced Der Vorleser (The Reader)
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- The Holocaust
The evidence
Bernhard Schlink's novel turns on a former guard at a concentration camp tried in postwar Germany, and on how the generation born after the war judged the one that came before.
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