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“The Last Days” (title translated by AI)
Martin Prinz (born 1973)
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A novel based on fact. April 1945, a valley opening in the Eastern Alps, in the Rax-Schneeberg area of Lower Austria: the days of the Thousand-Year Reich are numbered, and at its edge the Red Army waits for the battle of Vienna to be decided. Where everything is too late but not yet over, district leader Johann Braun sets up his own court martial, a private regime of murder. People are condemned at will: the politically unreliable, supposed deserters, some of them minors, men and women who were denounced or in the wrong place. Drawing on the records of the trial of the killers in 1948, the narrator addresses the murdered and gives them back a voice.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 260 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria, 1945
- First published
- 2025 by Jung und Jung Verlag
- Author's age
- 52 when first published
- ISBN
9783990274156 (original)