Notes from The Cabaret

Berlin Atmosphere:
When I watched the Cabaret, I noticed a couple things about the environment. It took place in Berlin, though the main two characters were British. Berlin was portrayed to be a slum; their were many homeless people on the streets and they referenced lack of money multiple times in the movie. Also, the atmosphere in Berlin was definitely anti- communist, as evidence by the ruined communist propaganda posters. Overall, it seemed like a tense environment. The tense environment can be chalked up to the presence of the Nazis. The Nazi's publicly killed one man and left him in the street and also murdered the manager of the Cabaret for kicking a Nazi out of his building, this goes to show that speaking your mind was dangerous which explains the tense environment.
The Point of the Cabaret:
In the movie, the point of the cabaret is to reflect the actions that are happening outside the Cabaret. For example, when the manager of the Cabaret is being murdered by nazi's a skit inside the Cabaret shows the host slapping the dancing women.
Nazis, Who are they? Where are they?:
In the Cabaret, the Nazi all seem to be young people. This is best shown in the scene in the beergarden where a young Nazi sings a song about grasping the future and the first people to stand up and sing with him are young men and women. That scene also shows that the Nazis are everywhere in Germany; they are in the countryside and in the cities.