At the entrance he recognised a boy from the Cosy Corner, now a brown-shirted storm trooper. It soon became clear to foreigners that many of their German acquaintances, whatever their former political views, were signing up with the Nazis, simply to survive. In May, just before he left Berlin for good, Isherwood wrote of his landlady: Already she is adapting herself, as she will adapt herself to every new regime. This morning I even heard her talking reverently about ‘Der Führer’ to the porter’s wife. If anybody were to remind her that, at the elections last November, she voted communist, she
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German people towing the nazi line to protect themselves.
