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Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" (completed 1922) and Robert Weine's film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920) feature a doctor psychologically experimenting on and manipulating their patients. What elements of post-WWI Austro-German culture may have contributed to this shared element in both works?

by /u/TchaikenNugget in /r/AskHistorians

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