Hochhuth, Rolf; Winston, Richard and Winston, Clara, translators — The Deputy

New York, The Grove Press, 1964. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior but for previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. A searing, book-length version of the play that burst onto the scene in 1963 in Germany, questioning why Pope Pius XII, the alleged embodiment of Christ on Earth, stood by and stood down during the Holocaust--and worse. Stated First Printing of this First U.S. Edition. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston from the original German. Foreword by Dr. Albert Schweitzer. "The question raised in The Deputy is how Pope Pius XII - Christ's deputy on earth - could fail to speak out against the mass murder of six million Jews and, by his silence, fail to give voice to Christianity's most fundamental principles."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good