Feb 20, West Berlin: “The Deputy, A Christian tragedy”: A drama by Rolf Hochhuth, which indicts Pope Pius XII for failure to speak out forcefully against the Nazi terror–war against the Jews.
The play was first performed on February 20, 1963 in Berlin (in German). It received its first English production in London, by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963.
“The Deputy” was made into a film Amen by Costa Gavras in 2002.