Today’s links Dave Maass and Patrick Ley’s “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis”: A graphic novel based on a musical written by inmates at a Nazi death-camp. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Dave Maass and Patrick Ley’s “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis” (permalink) “The Emperor of Atlantis,” is an opera written by two Nazi concentration camp inmates, the librettist Peter Kien and the composer Viktor Ullmann, while they were interned in Terezin, a show-camp in Czechoslovakia that housed numerous Jewish artists, who were encouraged to make and display their work as a way of proving to the rest of the world that Nazi camps were humane places. Of course, it was all a sham. Like nearly all of Terezin’s inmates, Kein and Ullmann were eventually shipped to Auschwitz to be murdered. “The Emperor” was never performed during their life, but the manuscript, written on scrounged paper (including the backs of other inmates Auschwitz transfer papers) survived. In the decades since, “The Emperor” has been mounted a few times, with varying degrees of faithfulness. But those live performances were limited to the people who could attend them during their limited run. Now, a new graphic novel called Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis, brings the work to us all: https://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/3726/berger-books-and-dark-horse-comics-present-death-s Death Strikes was adapted by my EFF colleague Dave Maass, an investigator and muckraker and brilliant writer, who teamed…Pluralistic: Dave Maass and Patrick Ley's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis" (23 January 2024)