"Deutsches Requiem" is the title of a short story by noted Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges. He published it in the collection El Aleph, 1949. It is the story of Otto Dietrich zur Linde, who is awaiting his death sentence for crimes committed as subdirector of a Nazi concentration camp. He reflects back on his own sins and those of his native Germany during World War II, and he tries to justify the actions of both.
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- 1949