A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
The Investigation [Die Ermittlung]
Author(s): Peter Weiss
Weiss uses transcripts from the Frankfurt trials of Auschwitz SS guards to create his docudrama. However, the play is not an actual documentary and some of his decisions in shaping the material have been highly controversial. Weiss structures the testimony into verse, never gives the survivors testifying names just numbers (as they were given in the camp), and never mentions Jews. Weiss uses the play to argue that the Holocaust occurred because of capitalism and suggests that the oppressed could as easily become oppressors.
Format:Docudrama
Snapshot
Nationality of Author:German
Experience(s) Chronicled:Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Survivors and Subsequent Generations
Tags: Auschwitz, SS, crime trials
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