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A dramatic re-construction of the Frankfurt War Crimes trials based on the actual evidence given. The testimony concerning Auschwitz and the atrocities which were enacted there was edited and extracted by Peter Weiss into a dramatic ducument that relies solely on the facts for its effectiveness. The play was premiered on October 19th, 1965, in thirteen theatres in East and West Germany, and at the Aldwych in London.

Peter Weiss was born in 1916 in Germany and settled in Sweden before the outbreak of World War II. Apart from his writing, he is also well-known as a surrealist-inspired painter, novelist, theatrical and operatic director and a film-maker. He died in 1982.

His magnificent play, Marat/Sade, established his reputation among English-speaking audiences as a revolutionary dramatist and has continued to be a best-selling classic. Its American production was awarded a Tony Award and its subsequent film adaptation was directed by Peter Brook. He is also well known for his historical work of fiction in three volumes, The Aesthetics of Resistance which concerned the resistance to facism in the late 1930s.