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Journal Article
You Are the Murderers: German Guilt in Peter Lorre's \Der Verlorene\
2015
Overview
Peter Lorre's film, Der Verlorene (1951), was one of the first to take a critical view of the Nazi period in the post-war era. He used his extensive knowledge of the crime thriller, a genre that was largely absent from German film in the early 1950s, to examine the impact of Nazism on German society. In effect, he told a story about a mundane killing, but that crime, and the events that followed, were symbolic of the ways that the Nazi regime turned average Germans into murderers. Today the film stands as an interesting artifact of the postwar era, reflecting the anger and anxiety that victims of Nazism had toward a region that was rapidly distancing itself from a troubling past but not yet ready to examine what that history meant for the present and the future.
