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100	1		_aBecher, Johannes Robert, _d1891-1958
245	1	1	_a(CHCl=CH)3As (Levisite); oder, Der einzig gerechte Krieg
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-20
508			_aJens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.
520			_a"(CHCl=CH)3As (Levisite); oder, Der einzig gerechte Krieg" by Johannes Robert Becher is a novel written in the early 20th century. It is a fierce, politically charged anti-war work that indicts German militarism and bourgeois hypocrisy after World War I, with chemical warfare as a central symbol of modern barbarism. The story follows Peter Friedjung, a young veteran whose disillusionment grows as he confronts reactionary elites and the rise of workers’ councils amid the 1918–1919 upheavals. Expect agitational prose fused with stark, reportorial scenes of war’s aftermath and social crisis. The opening of the novel begins with a manifesto-like preface that rejects complacent readers and declares allegiance to a coming social revolution. It then moves to November 1918: bedraggled troops retreat across the Rhine, briefly lifted by “Deutschland über alles,” while Peter returns to a homeland roiled by workers’ and soldiers’ councils and his own confusion and anger. A salon “Trio” of notables reveals elite plans to preserve authority—legal tactics, covert violence, and pious rhetoric—set grotesquely against Beethoven and hushed patriot songs, deepening Peter’s disgust. At home, his mother urges him to go his own way; a flashback to his father’s role in a death-penalty case exposes long-standing moral fissures. War memories surface—gas attacks, a humane encounter with an American prisoner abruptly shot by a German NCO—and a hospital stint shows narcotics, botched care, and the ravages of gas victims, from which Peter claws back by recalling a hardy mountain childhood. A reunion with ex-classmates, now swaggering and vengeful, finally severs his faith in patriotic platitudes; he departs for Berlin as his father demands “purity” and his mother trusts his path. The next chapter opens with a coal-mine explosion at “Königin Luise,” triggering citywide panic, sirens, and a rush to the site, signaling that catastrophe and class tension will drive the story. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cWien: Agis, 1926
653			_aImaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
653			_aGases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use -- Fiction
700	1		_aHeartfield, John, _d1891-1968
856	4		_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.468544
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78251
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