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As source material for \u201cBlueberries,\u201d the creators used the album, of course, as well as interviews and personal accounts from relevant figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Erbelding\u2019s historical sleuthing, aided by colleagues like the museum\u2019s head of photography Judy Cohen (Barbara Pitts), reveals that the album belonged to Karl H\u00f6cker (Christian Pedersen), the right-hand man to the head of Auschwitz, Richard Baer. Also in the photos: Auschwitz architect Rudolf H\u00f6ss, the infamous \u201cangel of death\u201d Josef Mengele and dozens, if not hundreds, of other Germans who ended up, in one way or another, facilitating a genocide.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Herein lies the show\u2019s central mysteries: Who are these people, and how did they end up working for the Nazi extermination machine?\u00a0<\/p>\n
As Erbelding investigates, a man named Tilman Taube (Sam Reeder) recognizes his grandfather in photos published by the press and agrees to work on finding more descendants of the perpetrators, which leads him to Rainer H\u00f6ss (Marrick Smith), grandson of Rudolf H\u00f6ss. Why hasn\u2019t Rainer changed his name? \u201cIt\u2019s my best revenge,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The entire ensemble cast delivered strong (if workmanlike) performances, but historians, bless them, aren’t the most dynamic character studies, and building a show around an academic pursuit presents real dramatic challenges. It didn\u2019t help that the design of the show feels quite dated, particularly the projections of dialogue in giant white letters, which feels like a way to add dramatic heft to a story whose villains must remain two-dimensional.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unlike Jonathan Glazer\u2019s 2023 film \u201cThe Zone of Interest,\u201d which treads much of the same blood-soaked ground, in this play (as in a museum) it\u2019s up to the viewer to imagine the implications of these photos and the unseen, unspeakable horror nearby. And it\u2019s no surprise that \u201cBlueberries\u201d is having a moment right now, as shows about fascism \u2014 and \u201cthe banality of evil,\u201d as Hannah Arendt stunningly described the mundane ways corruption spreads \u2014 either overtly or obliquely, resonate with our current headlines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perhaps more than this show itself, I expect the conversations that follow it are a dynamic treasure trove, which is its own kind of dramatic success. There\u2019s so much to mine. The idea that layer upon layer of middle management leads to a diffuse sense of responsibility that allows atrocities to happen. How much Germany\u2019s professional class \u2014 lawyers, journalists, bankers \u2014 participated in the Nazi machine. How much we owe to the advent of hobby photography, and how important a role imagery still plays in accountability.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But I will give the last word to an employee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum interviewed for the play, who, along with his colleagues, found the photographs that made them see the SS as people, not monsters, very difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes, when people look at the world of Auschwitz, they focus on the killing, and they forget that the killing is the result of a long process,\u201d he says. \u201cNo genocide starts with the killing. Every genocide starts with words.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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