NMLP P-043118 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
Every Man Dies Alone (Alone in Berlin)
Hans Fallada · Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin · 1947
The decisive textual point is editorial: Aufbau's editor Paul Wiegler shortened the book and altered it in places for political reasons, apparently without the author's consent, and changed the character name Barkhausen to Borkhausen — the 1947 first edition reads 'Borkhausen'
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-043118 for "Every Man Dies Alone (Alone in Berlin)" by Hans Fallada (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043118, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).