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Albin Egger-Lienz: Finale, painting, 1918

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  • Chapter

    ‘Black Decay’ – Soldiers as Victims

    In Austrian literature the devastating effects of the war on individual men and on the condition of military masculinity are major themes. Writers confront the aspect of war as a merciless ‘engineer’ who mows down men or turns them into invalids.