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Rudi, the son of a former Nazi SS doctor, falls in love with Sarah, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Rudi grew up blissfully unaware of his father’s past, but after discovering the truth, he ran away to Germany to create a new life for himself under a new identity. While researching his father’s war crimes, he meets Sarah, who is researching the family she lost during the Holocaust. They develop a relationship, and when Sarah becomes pregnant, Rudi proposes to her. Sarah is hesitant at
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HERMANN: You’ve - you’re - of course, you’ve broadened - you were young, and now you’re . . .
RUDI: Hermann? (Beat) You’re - Hermann, you’re here, you’re . . . in Germany. You’re - you’ve met Sarah? (to SARAH) Sarah, this is . . . Hermann. He’s a childhood friend, an old . . .
RUDI looks at SARAH. He stops talking.
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RUDI: Just wait, I’ll - Sarah, I’ll. . . please. I’ll call you in New York, I’ll tell you what . . . happens. Just wait, please - wait a week, don’t . . . (Beat) Sarah? (Beat) Sarah? (Beat).
SARAH: I don’t know what to . . . Rudi?
Citation: Moscovitch, Hannah, East of Berlin, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009, pp. 72-79.
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