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'The Loyal Subject' by Heinrich Mann

October 5, 2018

Diederich Heßling is a man who bends over backward for those above him and kicks and spits on those below him. Heinrich Mann's "The Loyal Subject" is an amusing, merciless and prophetic analysis of German society in the early 20th century.

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