Demon General

…However, because his mother's side was Jewish, he was persecuted by the Nazis, and in 1938 he fled to the United States via Switzerland. In 1946, his work The Devil's General, which deals with the tragedy of a soldier who supported the Nazis despite his guilty conscience, was performed in Switzerland, and he became a popular writer again. He later published works such as Cold Light (1955), which dealt with the issue of the atomic bomb. …

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…だが，母方がユダヤ系であったため，ナチスの迫害をうけ，38年にスイスを経てアメリカに亡命。46年に，良心の呵責を抱きつつもナチスに加担した軍人の悲劇を扱う《悪魔の将軍》がスイスで上演され，再び人気作家となった。その後，原爆問題を主題にした《冷たい光》(1955)などを発表。…

※「《悪魔の将軍》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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