A computational linguistics processing of the poem was the topic of the 1968 radio drama "Die Maschine" by Georges Perec and . It is also cited in Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel "Measuring the World", in Milan Kundera's novel "Immortality", and in Walter Moers' novel "The City of Dreaming Books". John Ottman's musical score for Bryan Singer's 2008 film "Valkyrie" contains a requiem-like piece for soprano and chorus in the closing credits with "" as lyrics. In the film's context, the poem serves as a lament on the miscarried assassination on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, mourns the proximate death of most of the assassins, and with the last two lines forecasts the demise of those whom they failed to kill.