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The Devil’s General [Des Teufels General]
Author(s): Carl Zuckmayer
The protagonist, General Harras, based on an actual historic figure, struggles to work within the Nazi regime while at the same time attempting to undermine Hitler’s policies, including helping Jews escape from the Third Reich.
Format: Drama
Cast Size: 20M/5F
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Notes:
For additional reading, see Gene A. Plunka Staging Holocaust Resistance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 25–43.
Original or Prominent Production: Dallas Theater Center, TX, 1978
Original Language: German
English Language Translator: Ingrid Komar
Publisher:
S. Fischer Verlag, 1963
Experience(s) Chronicled: Escape | Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution | Resistance