Word: hochhuth
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Even so, the process of myth-building is continuing. At present, Che appears each evening in a new play. The Guerrillas, by German Playwright Rolf Hochhuth, whose earlier play, The Deputy, pilloried Pope Pius XII for his failure to denounce the Nazi extermination of Jews. In The Guerrillas, now playing in four German cities, a young New York Senator who is also leader of a Che-style U.S. underground movement pleads with Guevara to abandon his Bolivian battle. Che refuses. "My death here-in a calculated sense-is the only possible victory," he says. "I must leave a sign...
Peephole views of history are peddled in the theater these days the way filthy postcards were once hawked in Paris. Want to see Pope Pius XII do something obscene to 6,000,000 Jews? Scan The Deputy, an original Rolf Hochhuth dirty history postcard. Want to see whites do something obscene to a Negro heavyweight champion? Scan The Great White Hope, an original Howard Sackler dirty history postcard. The theatrical alleys are getting a trifle crowded with these peddlers, but Ireland's Conor Cruise O'Brien obviously thinks there is room for one more. He has a marvelous...
...VATICAN Spies in Surplies In his bitterly controversial play The Deputy, Germany's Rolf Hochhuth accused Pope Pius XII of doing too little to save the Jews of Europe during World War II. According to Hochhuth's thesis, the Vatican and Berlin were thus, by extension, tacit wartime allies. Writing in the current issue of the scholarly Vatican review La Civiltá Cattolica, U.S. Jesuit Robert A. Graham disputes this view. Not only did the Nazis distrust the Vatican, says Graham, but they also flooded Rome with bogus priests and lay spies in an effort to discover whether...