Diskussion: Ahlrich Meyer, Kleistische Prosa oder Polizeibericht? Anmerkungen zu Ernst Jüngers Denkschrift "Zur Geiselfrage"Kleistian prose or police report?Some comments on Ernst Jünger's memorandum "On the hostage question"
The publication of Ernst Jünger's "Hostage Memorandum" requires some further comments, which should be of interest both for the research on Ernst Jünger and for the historiography of the German occupation in France. The author has been able to prove that Jünger's text, which was drawn up on behalf of the German military administration in Paris, is chiefly based on the reports of the Geheime Feldpolizei and other contemporary documents, which Jünger copied for the most part. There are notes and calendar entries to be found in Jünger's unpublished literary bequest that show Otto von Stülpnagel, the first military commander in France, and his tactically motivated attitude towards the mass killings of French hostages in a different and much more critical light than the memorandum recently published.
