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This play (121pg) by German Marxist Bertolt Brecht was written in 1941 during Brecht's exile from nazi Germany. It is an allegoricall play that uses a ganster's (Arturo Ui's) rise to power as an allegory to the rise to power of Hitler. It is a very interesting play, in that it both satirizes Hitler, a mediocre if not stupid person at everything he put his hand to before his final rise to power, and yet it explains his rise to power in a simple, very understandable way. All of the charachters in the play have an equivalent to real-life people in Germany, thus Old Dogsborough is von Hindenberg, Ernesto Romo is Ernest Rohm, Emanuele Giri is Hermann Goring, Giuseppe Givola is Joseph Goebbels, the Cauliflower Trust is the Junkers, Chicago is Germany, and Cicero is Austria. Enjoy comrades:

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