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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