 According to the documentary on the Recent Wolf Man DVD collection,  the script for The Wolf Man was influenced by writer  Curt Siodmak (qv)s experiences in Nazi Germany. Siodmak had been  living a normal life in Germany only to have it thrown into chaos  and himself on the run when the Nazis took control, just as Larry  Talbot finds his normal life thrown into chaos and himself on the  run once he is turned into a werewolf. Also, the wolfman himself can  be seen as a metaphor for the Nazis: an otherwise good man who is  transformed into a vicious killing animal who knows who his next  victim will be when he sees the symbol of a pentagram (i.e., a star)  on them.