Mord und Todesqual in Etzels Hunnensaal: Albrecht Haushofers literarischer Umgang mit nationalsozialistischen Kriegsmythen und dem Mythos Stalingrad

abstract: The aim of the article is to illustrate how Albrecht Haushofer's Moabit Sonnet LIII demythologizes National Socialist war myths and how the same text simultaneously contributes to the formation of new myths. The third main objective of the essay is to clarify whether Haushofer's sonnet can also be read as a disguised and difficult-to-decipher examination of the National Socialists' Stalingrad myth. If this view turns out to be correct, Haushofer is perhaps the very first author ever to oppose the general mythologization of the Battle of the Volga in his time with his sonnet, written in 1944/45.