The author Ernst von Salomon wrote a novel about this supposed impertinence, entitled The Questionnaire, which became one of the biggest bestsellers of post-war Germany after its publication in 1951. Using the questionnaire as the basis of the book, he develops a 600-page autobiography, proving that the complex life of a nationalist, conservative German intellectual could not, with the best will in the world, be captured by such a foolish set of questions.
