Rolf Hochhuth, Who Challenged a Pope's Wartime Silence, Dies at 89
His play "The Deputy," from 1963, took issue with Pius XII's stance toward Nazi atrocities and caused a furor. "The theater," Susan Sontag wrote, "is courtroom."
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