Way to Heaven (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Way To Heaven (German: Himmelweg) is a 2004 play by the award-winning Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga.The play is about a notorious incident in 1944 in which a delegation from the International Red Cross visited the Theresienstadt concentration camp and were duped by the Nazi camp officials into reporting to the world that conditions were good and that they saw no evidence to support reports of mass murder.According to The New York Times, the play has five sections. It opens with a monologue by the Red Cross inspector. Next we see the series of tableaux concocted by the Nazis to dupe the Red Cross, such as a small girl at play teaching her doll to swim. In the third scene the camp commandant graciously receives the Red Cross visitor (in real life there was a commission with several members, in the play this is represented by a single Red Cross delegate.) "The world," the commandant tells the Red Cross representative, "is moving toward unity."