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Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
Brecht's series of interconnected playlets describe what life was like in German households in the 1930s. They dramatize with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety experienced by ordinary people, particularly Jewish citizens, as the power of Hitler grew. A growing distrust of their friends and colleagues and even of their own children affects everyone from factory worker to physicist, housewife to judge. We know the results, what we are looking for is the beginnings, Max Frisch said of the play in 1947, emphasising its significance in exposing the roots of Nazi terror. Brechts picture of the breakdown of normal relationships under the Nazis is not only of historical interest, but emotionally transfixing.
Written in exile in Denmark, the play was inspired in part by Brechts recent trip to Moscow where he had been researching tasks for the anti-Nazi effort. Eight scenes of the play were first performed in Paris in 1938 entitled 99%, while all the scenes have since been produced in a variety of different combinations.
This version is translated by John Willett.
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