Brecht did not want to write works that he would put in his desk drawer to wait for better times. He wanted to contribute to the fight against fascism, and so in his Danish exile he began writing Mrs. Krarar's Guns in the first year of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The question that Brecht raises in The Guns of Mrs. Krarar about the legitimacy of armed resistance is a question that will remain open as long as there is invasion, occupation, colonization, and war. This play is published for the first time in Arabic.
In 99 Percent, Brecht satirizes Nazi propaganda about the 1938 parliamentary elections, which claimed that 99 percent of Germans voted for Hitler. The climate of fear and terror that Brecht describes in this play is one that readers are familiar with to varying degrees around the world, especially in repressive countries.
