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=== ''Michael Kohlhaas'' provides examples of: ===

* [[Very Loosely Based On a True Story]]. Michael Kohlhaas existed and did lay waste to the countryside in the 16th century. The letter that Martin Luther writes to Kohlhaas in this story is similar to one Luther actually wrote.

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]. Michael Kohlhaas existed and did lay waste to the countryside in the 16th century. The letter that Martin Luther writes to Kohlhaas in this story is similar to one Luther actually wrote.

* [[Justified Criminal]].

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]. Kohlhaas manages to put it out of his mind that though the people who wronged him were nobles and corrupt government officials, by pillaging Saxony he's destroying the property of farmers and yeomen like himself.

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* [[Fortune Teller|Gypsy Fortune Teller]]. She acts as something of a ''deus ex machina'' intervening at several convenient points in the plot.

* [[Corrupt Bureaucrat]]. Many of them, enabling powerful people to do what they want. Two of them are actually called "Hinz and Kunz", proverbial German "John Doe" names.

* [[Self Fulfilling Prophecy]]. Whatever may be written on that mysterious piece of paper, the Elector of Saxony believes it's important to his future and is desperate to read it. His very anxiety over the prophecy is his undoing.

* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]. Whatever may be written on that mysterious piece of paper, the Elector of Saxony believes it's important to his future and is desperate to read it. His very anxiety over the prophecy is his undoing.