Deutsches Requiem (short story)

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"
Short story by Jorge Luis Borges
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish
Publication
PublisherSur
Publication dateFebruary 1946

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

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. The short story was translated into English by Julian Palley and published in New World Writing N° 14, 1958.

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