The first English translation by Robert David MacDonald was published as The Representative, by Methuen in Britain in 1963. Kurt Gerstein, an official at the "Institute of Hygiene" of the Waffen-SS, tried to inform the international public about the extermination camps. In subtitling his play ein christliches trauerspiel, Hochhuth links his rather novel, pseudo-journalistic approach (complete with stage-directions well in excess even of Shaw's which tell us not only how a character looks and acts but what his or her life is like today - that is, in 1963, 21 years after the action of the play) to the tradition of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Hochhuth sought to refute two notions. The play ends with a quotation from German ambassador Weizsäcker: Since further action on the Jewish problem is probably not to be expected here in Rome, it may be assumed that this question, so troublesome to German-Vatican relations, has been disposed of.[24]. Further productions of Hochhuth's play brought about conflicts and turmoil in several European cities. The idea of the papacy must be preserved pure in eternity, even if it is briefly embodied by an Alexander VI, or a -'" [21] Riccardo breaks off, but clearly he, and possibly Hochhuth, want to imply a comparison between the Borgia Pope (Alexander VI)and Pius XII. The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965, Michael Phayer, p. 212, Indiana University Press, 2000. Riccardo dons the yellow star and joins deportees to die at Auschwitz, where the rest of the act takes place. He was appointed to a Pontifical commission where he assisted Nazi war criminals like Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Franz Stangl, Eduard Roschmann, and many others to escape justice. DEPUTY brings the spirit of a classic Western and a gritty authenticity to the modern cop drama. [or] 'No, no' - the truth, not tactics". Hrsg. A letter from Albert Schweitzer to Hochhuth's German publisher serves as the foreword to the US edition. The project started development in October 2018. Pius XII, The Holocaust and the Cold War, Michael Phayer, p.203-7, Indiana University Press, 2008. The series premiered on January 2, 2020 and consisted of thirteen episodes. Our review of Deputy Season 1 Episode 4 considers whether the series is garnering the investment of our time, and like the hour at hand, we're struggling. Ein christliches Trauerspiel), also published in English as The Representative , is a controversial 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth which portrayed Pope Pius XII as having failed to take action or speak out against the Holocaust. [27], It has been said that it was Bishop Alois Hudal who provided Rolf Hochhuth with the image of the "heartless, money-grasping pontiff". Gerstein is taken into custody, and Riccardo follows in a long tradition of tragic figures by showing himself partly redeemed with his dying declaration, a whispered "'in hora mortis meae voca me'" [23] (Latin, and modally ambiguous: one could read subjunctive :"in the hour of my death may He call unto me" or imperative "in the hour of my death, call unto me! "[3], Michael Phayer notes that during the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church a direct reference was made by Bishop Josef Stangl to Hochhuth's play when he declared to the council: "If we speak in the name of God, in the name of Jesus Christ, as the deputies of the Lord, then our message must be [a clear] 'Yes, Yes! [28] Hudal has been described as "the most notorious pro-Nazi bishop in the entire Catholic Church". Follain, John, "KGB and the plot to taint 'Nazi pope'". The encyclopedia notes "though Pius's wartime public condemnations of racism and genocide were cloaked in generalities, he did not turn a blind eye to the suffering but chose to use diplomacy to aid the persecuted.