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German-jewish Author Wins Award for Play Based on Auschwitz Trial

April 14, 1966
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Peter Weiss, the German-Jewish dramatist, who lives in Sweden, was awarded today the Heinrich Mann prize for 1965 for his oratorio, “The Investigation, ” which is based on testimony in the major Auschwitz war crimes trial in Frankfurt last year.

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