know" are both themes of the play. Vineta is a warning against war and against illusions which are created to suppress people. Soyfer also wrote Broadway Melodie 1942 for the "ABC Theatre". It is an adaptation of Columbus by Kurt Tucholsky and Walter Hasenclever. Soyfer kept the original satire of the clergy and court society, but his political criticism of society is far more radical. The way the play sees events from the point of view of the lower classes makes it a classic piece of Volkstheater Wien (Austrian popular theatre); it becomes clear that, in the imagination of the playwright, the lower classes of society are actually superior to the upper classes (or at least should be). Soyfer has been accused by the publisher of the "Columbus"-play, Felix Blochs Erben as well as by both widows, Mary Tucholsky and Edith Hasenclever, of having plagiarized the play from its original authors. In the end, the play was pulled from Vienna theatres. During his imprisonment from 1937–1938, Soyfer began writing another play which was to be about Adolf Hitler. Nothing has survived of these drafts. The first verse of the , the Dachau song: Stacheldraht, mit Tod geladen,ist um unsre Welt gespannt. Drauf ein Himmel ohne Gnadensendet Frost und Sonnenbrand.Fern von uns sind alle Freuden,fern die Heimat, fern die Fraun,wenn wir stumm zur Arbeit schreiten,Tausende im Morgengraun.Doch wir haben die Losung von Dachau gelerntund wurden stahlhart dabei:Sei ein Mann, Kamerad, bleib ein Mensch, Kamerad,mach ganze Arbeit, pack an, Kamerad,denn Arbeit, Arbeit macht frei! Barbed wire, loaded with death is drawn around our world.Above a sky without mercysends frost and sunburn.Far from us are all joys,far away our home, far away our wives,when we march to work in silencethousands of us at the break of day.But we have learned the motto of Dachauand it made us as hard as steel:Be a man, mate,stay a man, mate,do a good job, get to it, mate,for work, work makes you free! Resonance Jura Soyfer's intent was not to present any complete solutions or conclusions: he believed that the problems he presented could only be solved in real life, in actual protest. His plays destroy illusions and call upon us to change society in its present form. He himself saw his own plays as a means for propaganda with a direct connection to the times in which he lived. Soyfer's plays were published as a collection