The Last Days of Mankind

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The Last Days of Mankind (German: Die letzten Tage der Menschheit) is a satirical play by Karl Kraus. It is considered one of the most important of Kraus's works.

One third of the play is drawn from documentary sources and is highly realistic, except the final scenes which are of expressionist genre.^[1]

• "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" im Bunker, Spiegel Online, April 22, 1999
• The last days of mankind; a tragedy in five acts. an abridgement translated by Alexander Gode and Sue Allen Wright. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co. 1974. ISBN 9780804424844.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text. Yale University Press. 24 November 2015. ISBN 978-0-300-21643-1; translated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms; with glossary & index{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

• "Karl Kraus the Last Days of Mankind - reading by Patrick Healy (November Editions, 2016)". YouTube. November Editions. 21 March 2016.
• ""The Mediated War: Karl Kraus's Docudrama 'The Last Days of Mankind'" by Marjorie Perloff". YouTube. Getty Research Institute. 25 February 2015.
• Hanns Eisler
• Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, in German at Project Gutenberg
• Website with iconography to all scenes www.letztetage.com