Germany's guilt alone? Andorra-a play about National Socialism or a parable about prejudice and racism?

... Germany's guilt alone? Andorra-a play about National Socialism or a parable about prejudice and racism? To address the question, I believe that Max Frisch's play Andorra, is a parable about prejudice and racism referring to anti-Semitism not alone in Hitler's reign in Germany but that it is also present in other countries, in different time periods and also in different ways. In essence, Andorra tells of terrible consequences of prejudices and of anti-Semitism in particular. Max Frisch wanted to make a stand against prejudices and discrimination.Although he also incorporates elements throughout the play, which refer to the Nazi period such as the Jew Show ("die Judenschau" {page 103*}), I believe that he is not focusing alone on Germany, yet it was to show what happened in Andorra could happen in any other country, thus allowing us to answer the question of Germany's guilt . Choosing Andorra as a setting for the play,

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