Word: hochhuth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deputy, German Playwright Rolf Hochhuth earned instant international notoriety by indicting Pope Pius XII for his failure to speak out against Nazi persecution of the Jews. Hochhuth's second play, Soldiers, which had its world premiere in Berlin last week, casts an accusing glance at Sir Winston Churchill. In essence, Soldiers contends that Churchill was responsible for the mysterious death, in July 1943, of General Wladyslavv Sikorski, leader of Poland's exile government...
...possibility of compiling official German documents on the subject. From these and other sources-but not from Vatican documents, which were not available to him-Friedlander wrote Pius XII and the Third Reich (Knopf; $4.95). It seems likely to create the same kind of stir as Playwright Rolf Hochhuth's polemical The Deputy...
...Hochhuth, basing his play on a hit-or-miss reading of history, argued that Pius stayed silent because he wanted Germany preserved as a bulwark against the conquest of Europe by Russian Communism. Friedlander, an Israeli citizen whose parents died at Auschwitz and who is now associate professor at Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies, comes to much the same conclusion...
...crimes in Poland are going up everywhere, sarcastically captioned: "Grant and beg forgiveness"-a quote from the letter sent by Polish prelates last fall inviting German bishops to Czestochowa in a gesture of reconciliation. As an added touch, the government last week opened in Warsaw The Deputy, the Rolf Hochhuth play that attacks Pius XII for not fighting Nazism...
...with the cries of tortured humanity in such productions as the bitingly antiwar Good Soldier: Schweik (1928), fled the Nazis in 1933, but returned after the war to continue his contro versial themes, most notably in 1963, when he staged the world premiere in Berlin of The Deputy, Rolf Hochhuth's stinging indictment of Pope Pius XII's wartime attitude toward Jews; of a ruptured gall bladder; in Starnberg, Bavaria...