copyright 2000   		  In front of the plain cloth curtain, GOEBBELS enters. He is an ugly man with a bad limp. He is clutching a sheath of papers. He is played by BRECHT in a buffoonish Prussian uniform several sizes too big for him.

GOEBBELS

(to audience)
First of June, 1938. To the Honorable Pigshit Ambassador of Shithole Czechoslovakia:

Dear Pigshit: It is with great contempt that I must once again call your attention to the so-called artist Helmut Herzfeld masquerading under the English pseudonym John Heartfield who excretes and fornicates in your Pigsty Nation. Even people as racially debased as your Czechoslovakian swine must object to the presence of vermin like Heartfield.

The freedom of the activity of the artist must stay within the limits set forth by the political idea, not by an artistic idea. The Fuhrer has clearly expressed himself on this subject.

Let no one have illusions! National Socialism has set out to purge the German Reich and our people of all those influences threatening its existence and character. We will put an end to artistic lunacy and the artistic pollution of our people.

These artists and the neurotics who are receptive to such stupid and insolent nonsense will be sent to prisons or insane asylums or worse. We respectfully demand the extradition of the shitbag Heartfield in order to begin legal proceedings against him.

Sincerely yours - and love to the wife and kids - Dr. Joseph Goebbels.

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