[Hochhuth's A German Love Story] is as characteristic of his thematic range, and as well larded with moral-cum-political observations as any [work] he has ever told or dramatized….

Hochhuth's main concern is not the complicity of particular individuals in a particular act of savagery, but "the spirit of the age" in which such acts became almost commonplace….

Hochhuth's "novel" is well worth reading, a further monument to his priorities, both personal and prefessional. At the top, for all to see, is his rejection of Goethe's maxim "that injustice was easier to tolerate than disorder".

Geoff Butler, "In an Ugly Time," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1980; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 4023, May 2, 1980, p. 510.