A fascinating play parodying Hitler's rise to power, realised through a Chicago Ganster World. It has the 'Night of the Long Knives' and Austrian Anschluss. The play wasn't performed for many years until 1958, considering it was written on Brecht's journey to exile in 1941.
Lines from the play are quoted at the end of Cross of Iron, a 1977 drama war film directed by Sam Peckinpah: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again".[14]
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