The Mirror of Salvation A Moral Play of Everyman c. 1490

In two world wars waged within the life time of one generation Death reaped a prolific harvest. His most formidable scythe in former days was not war but pestilence. But since medical science has forged all kinds of weapons wherewith to strike that dreaded tool out of his knuckles he resorted in our...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnouw, Adriaan J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1971, 1971
Edition:1st ed. 1971
Series:Bibliotheca Neerlandica extra muros
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 01912nmm a2200253 u 4500
001 EB000719446
003 EBX01000000000000000572528
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 140122 ||| eng
020 |a 9789401175302 
100 1 |a Barnouw, Adriaan J. 
245 0 0 |a The Mirror of Salvation  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b A Moral Play of Everyman c. 1490  |c by Adriaan J. Barnouw 
250 |a 1st ed. 1971 
260 |a Dordrecht  |b Springer Netherlands  |c 1971, 1971 
300 |a XVI, 46 p  |b online resource 
653 |a Romance Languages 
653 |a Romance languages 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b SBA  |a Springer Book Archives -2004 
490 0 |a Bibliotheca Neerlandica extra muros 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7530-2?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 440 
520 |a In two world wars waged within the life time of one generation Death reaped a prolific harvest. His most formidable scythe in former days was not war but pestilence. But since medical science has forged all kinds of weapons wherewith to strike that dreaded tool out of his knuckles he resorted in our lifetime to a new technique of morticulture which has yielded him un­ dreamt-of results. Using race hatred as fertilizer he has grown on the soil of the globe a crop of dead whose size baffles the imagination. The executioners whom he employed in Hitler's Germany kept careful record of the loathsome work they did for him in torture camps and gas chambers. They reckoned that six million Jews were delivered to Death by their efforts. In Holland alone only fifteen thousand of her one hundred and fifty­ thousand Jews survived the massacre. Death was the chief war profiteer. Though his inflated power was reduced by the overthrow of his Nazi henchmen, his innings are still large as he stalks across the world with his satellites Poverty, Hunger, and Disease