There is a short period in Sartre's life about which his biographies have been rather sparse. From June 1940 to March 1941, he was a prisoner of war in Stalag 12 D near Trier, Germany. The firsthand account of Abbé Marius Perrin thus fills a gap.
He reveals that Sartre maintained both intellectual and friendly relations with the author and a number of other prisoner priests. We see Sartre translating for them a Heidegger he had obtained, submitting to them the unpublished manuscript of The Age of Reason, and, with their complicity, writing a mystery play for the Stalag prisoners in 1940: Bariona, which he performed with them.
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