Deutsches Requiem (short story)

"Deutsches Requiem" is a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges.

For the orchestral work by Johannes Brahms, see A German Requiem (Brahms). For the novel set in post-war Europe by Philip Kerr, see A German Requiem (novel).
Deutsches Requiem
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish
GenreShort story
PublisherSur
Publication date
February 1946

Published in Sur in February 1946, it was reprinted in the collection El Aleph (1949). It is the fictional last testament of Otto Dietrich zur Linde, the one-legged commandant of a Nazi concentration camp. After being tried and convicted of crimes against humanity, zur Linde reflects on his own sins and those of Nazi Germany while he awaits the firing squad.

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