The Investigation

Die Ermittlung (1965; The Investigation) is a documentary drama re-creating the Frankfurt trials of the men who carried out mass murders at Auschwitz; at the same time, it attacks later German hypocrisy over the existence of concentration camps and investigates the root causes of aggression. Weiss’s other plays…

…during the Third Reich, and The Investigation by Peter Weiss, dealing with the Auschwitz concentration camp.

…Jews; Weiss’s Die Ermittlung (1965; The Investigation) presented extracts from official hearings on the Auschwitz concentration camp; and Kipphardt’s In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer (1964; In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer) re-created the American inquiry into Oppenheimer’s loyalty because of his opposition to the development of the hydrogen…