This is set in a fictitious countries embassy in West Germany in 1962. A handful of well connected Germans - minister, general, industrialist, bishop, journalist - have been invited for a special purpose. They are informed that Hitler didn't die but was flown out of Berlin in 1945 and has been living incognito in Iceland ever since. He is in the building and will shortly be presented to them along with his hitherto unknown son. Their task is to decide whether to follow or shoot him. After some debate all but one of them decide to fall in behind their now chubby faced fuhrer. The minister and general make quick phone calls and a successful coup d'etat is underway.
Presumably this is an allegory suggesting mankind is still susceptible to totalitarianism. Perhaps it could have done with Rod Serling announcing it could only happen in a political twilight zone. But one should bear in mind writer Robert Muller was a Jewish refugee from Germany in 1938. And after all, an outlandish play is preferable to a dull one.
Presumably this is an allegory suggesting mankind is still susceptible to totalitarianism. Perhaps it could have done with Rod Serling announcing it could only happen in a political twilight zone. But one should bear in mind writer Robert Muller was a Jewish refugee from Germany in 1938. And after all, an outlandish play is preferable to a dull one.
