| Summary: | This study explores The seventh Cross written by Anna Seghers, one of the writers of German Literature within the framework of violence. The writer, who usually reflects the social turbulence of the period in which she lives and particularly the period of National Socialism, handles the realty of concentration camps during Nazi period. The writer, who produces works based on the idea that literature has a mission, has the purpose of confronting her readers with the facts of the related periods and raising their awareness about those facts. Starting from the same idea, she mirrors the spiritual world of the people living in the period of National Socialism through focusing on concentration camps and violence in her work called The seventh Cross. Seghers narrates the Nazi period with all its realty to hers readers by positioning anti-Nazi people from different sections of the society in opposition to the sadistic Nazi sympathizers who become alien to themselves through the power they get from the authority and who normally internalize unproportional violence towards each anti-regime section. In this study, the phenomena of concentration camp and violence that are circulated within the author's The Seventh Cross have been sociologically and psychologically analyzed.
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