in the end credits it said paul wrote a book except it was burn't by the nazi's...can you buy the book in english???
shareI don't think so, but this movie does has a novel from another author, but it is only in german. I think Paul wouldn't want to talk about the tragedy, so I suppose the novel they mention in the movie is probably of another subject, but I'm just speculating.
the punishment is that you can never forget that one moment...
The book mentioned in the end credits ("Die Mietskaserne", Ernst Erich Noth) deals with problems of the youth like mental suffering, repression at school, violence in families as well as sexual assault and child abuse. The plot is about two young boys from poor families in Berlin during WorldWar I, who try to find their course of live via many roundabout- and wrong ways (all according to amazon.de) The plot describes the circumstances under wich Paul Krantz grew up (http://www.glotzi-verlag.de/EENBiografie.htm) and as he wrote it in the age of 22, that means 3-4 years after his affair with Hilde and Günthers suicide, it might be, that he at least tried to come to terms with what he passed through in 1927 by writing the novel.
The novel that was taken as a basis for the movie is "Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken", ISBN-10: 3746619319, or "Der Selbstmörderclub", ISBN-10: 337901673X, from "Arno Meyer zu Küingdorf".
"Die Mietskaserne" was published in six different languages after 1932, but I couldn't find it in english at present.