great killers. The circle described has been deliberately restricted; it is confined to the plane of state, industrialists, Junkers and petty bourgeois. This is enough to achieve the desired objective. The play does not pretend to give a complete account of the historical situation in the 1930s. In his 1992 study, Hitler: The Führer and the People, J. P. Stern, a professor of German literature, rejects both Arturo Ui and Chaplin's The Great Dictator, writing: "[T]he true nature of [Hitler] is trivialized and obscured rather than illuminated by the antics of Charles Chaplin and the deeply unfunny comedy of Bertolt Brecht." The play was listed in 1999 as No. 54 on Le Monde 100 Books of the Century. In popular culture Lines from the play are quoted at the end of Cross of Iron, a 1977 drama war film directed by Sam Peckinpah: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again". In the final episode of the first season of Being Human, the vampire Herrick quotes the play shortly before the werewolf George kills him, "The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don't rejoice too soon at your escape – The womb he crawled from is still going strong", mocking the heroes' hopes of stopping his plans for world domination, asserting the vampires' rise to power is inevitable. References Notes Bibliography External links , BBC 1972 version with Nicol Williamson and Jill Townsend Photos and production details for 1960s Leonard Rossiter theatre adaptation Anti-fascist plays Plays by Bertolt Brecht Plays about organized crime 1941 plays Satirical plays Plays about World War II Plays about Nazi Germany Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler Cultural depictions of Heinrich Himmler Cultural depictions of Joseph Goebbels Cultural depictions of Hermann Göring Cultural depictions of Paul von Hindenburg Cultural depictions of Franz von Papen