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Death of Bertolt Brecht, prominent German playwright

On August 14, 1956, Bertolt Brecht, famous German poet and playwright, died at the age of 58. In 1917 Brecht went to Munich to study medicine. He practiced medicine in military hospitals during World War I where he got to know people’s poverty and privation. He wrote his first famous play named Baal that was a mythological god that symbolizes atrocity and rebellion.
After World War I, as Nazism outspreaded throughout Germany, contrary to submissive intellectuals Brecht struggled with Nazism dominance and left Germany in 1933 after Hitler’s domination. He went back to his country after World War II. Brecht defied Hitler’s tyranny outside his country and wrote many plays and poems against Fascism. His ideas are represented in his famous play “man is man”. In this play he shows a dominative regime that alienates man to exploit them. The screws and nuts of regime’s war machine are ignorant people who are striving in its trap. 

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