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A sketch performed by the inimitable
duo Jiří "George"
Voskovec and Jan
Werich at the antifascist rally titled
We Fight Back, held at Hunter College on April 3, 1943. The rally was
organized to commemorate the anniversary of the infamous Nazi book-burning at
which "The Good Soldier Švejk" was among the books being burnt. For
Bertolt Brecht who attended the rally, having seen the performance of Švejk's
Spirit Lives On meant that the "...[g]athering momentum toward
something definite finally crystallized ..." and "[b]y mid-May Brecht
had completed a story outline for Schweyk
im zweiten Weltkrieg (Schweyk in the Second World War), and Weill had
written some of the songs."
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