About the book: 2014 / Drawing on the experience of German literary and cinematic expressionism, this fantasy novel-pamphlet tells the story of a doctor -a psychiatrist who unwillingly became a murderer. But his crimes are nothing compared to the madness of an entire country that voluntarily stepped into the abyss of Nazism. Today, when the heirs of the ideas of Hitlerism are once again suppressing dissent, cracking down on political opponents, fanning national “patriotic” hysteria and starting new “Anschluss” and wars, this the book, published anonymously 75 years ago, does not seem at all like an outdated historical artifact. It reads like a warning.