Career
Barthel served in the First World War and was a student in Munich. He was later an archivist (German: Archivrat) there. His poems, for example "Tannenburg: Ruf und Requiem" (Tannenberg: A Call and a Requiem.
1934), and such stories as "Das Leben ruft" (Life Calls.
1935), are influenced by the experience of war, which he made into a cult.
