tellectual consideration of her complex moral dilemma: how to maintain a family in a society dehumanized by commercial interests.
             Brecht fled his native Germany in 1933, shortly after Hitler rose to power and stormtroopers began targeting leftist intellectuals and Communists for persecution. His work, especially The Threepenny Opera and Mahogonny, had won him acclaim, but Brecht was despised by the Nazis for the Marxist views expressed in his writing. His books, in fact, were among the first to be burned by the Nazi
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