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The Condemned of Altona

The Condemned of Altona is a play written by Jean-Paul Sartre, known in Great Britain as Loser Wins. It was first produced in 1959 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. It was one of the last plays Sartre wrote, followed only by his adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. The title recalls his formulation "Man is condemned to be free." It is the only one of Sartre's fictional works which deals directly with Nazism, and also serves as a critique of the then-ongoing Algerian War. The action takes place in Altona, a borough of the German city-state of Hamburg.


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“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

Jean Paul Sartre The Condemned of Altona

Loser Wins http://books.google.com/books?id=NwBMAAAAMAAJ&q="I+hate+victims+who+respect+their+executioners" (Les Séquestrés d'Altona: A Play in Five Acts) (1960)

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