A Play in two acts of thirteen scenes.
The play focuses on the members of Adolf Hitler's family from 1925
to 1945, examining the affects of Hitler's treatment of individual family
members over the years of his and Nazism's rise to power, their reactions
and the changes made in their lives as Hitler's fate affects their own
destinies. Through this family's history, we see the nature of Germany
and the German and Austrian people as it manifested over two decades
of fascism, genocide and the brutal conquest of Europe. The story of
all characters is based on historical documents of the period, factual
records preserved in remarkable detail.
It employs 20 characters and several simple settings.
PLAYING TIME : two and a half hours
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