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Dispatches from Hell
Author(s): Melvin Cooperman
Set in the office responsible for scheduling trains in the Third Reich, the short play dramatizes the bureaucracy behind the Holocaust. A dispatcher saves his own job and life by establishing the schedules that will allow the Nazis to transport thousands of Jews—referred to as waste products—to the extermination centers.
Format: Drama
Cast Size: 2M/1F
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Original or Prominent Production: Lone Wolf Productions, NYC, 1983
Original Language: English
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators