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Hochhuth

British  
/ ˈhoːxhuːt /

noun

  1. Rolf (rɔlf). born 1933, Swiss dramatist. His best-known works are the controversial documentary drama The Representative (1963), on the papacy's attitude to the Jews in World War II, Soldiers (1967), German Love Story (1980), and Wessis in Weimar (1992)

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In the early 1960s, however, the German playwright Rolf Hochhuth brought Pius XII’s wartime actions back into the headlines with a new play, the title of which was rendered in English as The Deputy.

From Time Jul. 28, 2016

The first play of Germany's Rolf Hochhuth, 32, it ran for five months last season in West Berlin's Free People's Theater, is now showing in Stockholm, Basel and at London's Royal Shakespeare Theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a dramatist, Hochhuth is arid and windy, substituting rhetoric for dialogue and debate for conflict.

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Hochhuth portrayed Pius XII as a Machiavellian "inverted mystic" who hoped to use Hitler to save Europe from Communism.

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Scan The Deputy, an original Rolf Hochhuth dirty history postcard.

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