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drama. It appeared at the Deutsches Theater in

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from March 1933 with

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directing and a cast that included

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and Hilde Körber. Staged just as the

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was taking power in Germany, it is a work of transition that is nationalistic and pro-military rather than explicitly Nazi.Noack p.68 It was followed afterwards at the theatre by a more overtly Nazi work '' Schlageter'' by

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References

Bibliography

* Hostetter, Elisabeth Schulz. ''The Berlin State Theater Under the Nazi Regime: A Study of the Administration, Key Productions, and Critical Responses from 1933-1944''.

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, 2004. * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''.

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