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CABARET excepts its audience to have such stock responses to decadence and Nazism that it never really bothers to pin down the exact relationship between the two. At moments, it suggests that a general disgust with the moral latitude of thirties Germany drove the middle classes into Hitler's protective arms. Elsewhere, it would appear that the vicarious thrills provided by the cabaret entertainments were identical to the satisfaction some Germans took in the brutal performances of the Nazis. And there is also the intimation that the cabaret was merely the soporific decoy that permitted the Third Reich to rise...
...CABARET," Berlin on the crumbling brink of the Third Reich and Hitler's holocaust is the historical background York was to blend with his unfortunately recurrent role of the young, innocent, effete British student-scholar. "For background I read a book on the rise of Hitler. What I felt about my role? In 'Cabaret' I tried to preserve the sense of 'I am a Camera' you also find in Isherwood's Berlin Stories." York isn't bullshitting. either, when he cites Isherwood. He means that he has in fact read the stories. "In other words, I was involved in what...
Diaries are negotiable currency, too. The London Journals of General Raymond E. Lee, 1940-41 (Little, Brown) are bringing $12.50 on the open market, mostly for predicting-you read it here!-that Russia will prove too much for Hitler. So it's "Once more into the attics, fellow soldiers." Even old memos are worth their weight in gold, and that, given the art of military memo writing, is saying something. In 1945 Sir John Masterman, peacetime Oxford don, wartime counterspy, was ordered to write an official report about the remarkable success British intelligence enjoyed turning around German spies...
...Nanette of the reprocessed cloak and dagger act, however, promises to be Reinhard Gehlen. How can you upstage a man who was Hitler's favorite intelligence officer, then after the war played "Dear Reinie" to his CIA chief Allen Dulles...
...those who could put war on paper. Statistics and maps filled him with a passion to organize them. By 1942 he was chief of intelligence on the eastern front. Toward the end, when accuracy meant prognosticating defeat, Gehlen's accurate reports earned him one of Hitler's temper tantrums. But this last-minute fall from favor only helped certify his anti-Nazi posture afterward...