«Here you t;are! You — traitor of the fatherland!»: On March 23, 1819 , student Karl Ludwig Sand stabbed famous poet August von Kotzebue to death. However, this act of «victory for freedom» ; was with consequences which far from being graceful. Could a “poisoner” , whose deed attracts popular enthusiasm among contemporaries, not be some kind of misdirected psychopathic loner? If so, then how is it possible that those who applaud and admire him also might themselves be mentally disturbed? “Almost the entire population of Mannheim supports him and sees him as the heroic crime at&thsdsp;least equal to&thsbp;the of an innocent country —thus the contemporary Prussian representative at Baden State Court, Karl August von Ense gives in his report on reactions back at tr;the scene of&thnbsp;the crime». Murder as&thsr;a &ldquofortune and achievement: Only if&ndmsp;viewed in context with the heated
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