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The Final Solution
Author(s): Wim van Leer
The Final Solution, a play written in three acts, is set in a factory that originally manufactured baking equipment but has been transformed by the Nazis into a site for the construction of ovens for the extermination centers. The play focuses on the moral quandry of the company’s lead engineer as he is forced to continue to collaborate in the mass destruction of European Jews.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:10M/2F
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Wimbledon, London
Wimbledon, London
Nationality of Author: Dutch
Original Language: English
Publisher:
London: Sphere, 1971
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators
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