The seventh cross

The seventh cross (German: Das siebte Kreuz [1] ) is a novel written by Anna Seghers. It tells of the flight of seven captured from a German concentration camp during the Third Reich. Already in 1938 began Sad with "Das siebte Kreuz" while they resided abroad and so wrote Exilliteratur . The first chapter appeared in 1939 in Muscovite magazine ' the international literature. The complete novel was in 1942 in the United States published in the English and also in the German Publishing House by the Mexican "El Libro Libre" (' the free book '). There also appeared in the us a comic version of the story of Sad. Some of the characters in this novel are later used in other works by Seghers. ==Content[ Edit] == In the year 1937 Georg succeed Heisler with six fellow prisoners from the concentration camp Westhofen Worms at the location to escape. This fictional camp is based on stories of captured from the Dachau concentration camp. The name Westhofen is inspired by the concentration camp Osthofen.

The camp commander Fahrenberg recommends, that the refugees should be arrested again within seven days. He then let the crowns of seven cutting trees and brings with every tree a crossbar, so that there are seven crosses, one for each refugee arise. The 6 other be caught or arrested or are crushed to death during their escape attempt. However, to succeed Georg Heisler flights and thus the seventh cross remains empty.

Each of the seven refugees is symbolic of a certain social layer in the society, as well as the National Socialists who are represented mainly by the camp commander. Thus are the figures in the book a cross-section of German society during the Third Reich.

Heislers Flight departing from the camp takes seven days, as many chapters used Anna Seghers for the book. The reason that it only he succeeds to escape is that he has no individualist is like the others, because he believes in communism . However, during his flight, he is also helped by good willing people who are not so much with politics intakes.

The fact that a refugee from a concentration camp and escapes with the help of others to escape the machtssyteem can, according to Anna Seghers had to show that national socialism was also thwarted in Germany. Also pulls Sad in the book the total power of the National Socialists in Germany in doubt. ==Film[ Edit] == In 1944 filmed the Austrian Fred Zinneman, which in the us in exile wrong, the book entitled ' The Seventh Cross '. The lead role was played by Spencer Tracy. Signe Hasso also played the role of Toni, Jessica Tandy Liesel Roeder, Agnes Moorehead Madame Marelli and Hume Cronyn Paul Roeder. Cronyn received an Oscar nomination for this role in the category of best supporting actor.

In the film [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGood_Bye%2C_Lenin! Good Bye, Lenin!] is a scene, in which the book ' Das siebte Kreuz ' is put back on the Bookshelf, if the mother of the main character has to be done as if the Wende in Germany has not yet taken place and that the GDR so still continues. The book of Sad belonged in the GDR until the mandatory school literature.