Reviews for Licking Hitler

The average rating for Licking Hitler based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-11-12 00:00:00 Alexandros Ioannidis C.P. Taylor poses the question - how do good, decent, liberal humane men and women get swept up by a totalatarian juggernaut - in this case the rise of Nazism. Produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1981, "Good" is a vivid and complex examination of Brecht's dictum that for evil to prosper, good men must do nothing. The central character, Halder, is a professor of literature: a good, liberal-minded, music-loving man. It becomes apparent, however, that for all of Halder's humanity, he has an emotional detachment from his surroundings that at its extreme level leads to a moral obliviousness which allows him to move step by carefully rationalized step to embracing the Final Solution and supervising at Auschwitz. The play opens with a popular song of the 1930s, "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", stolen, as Halder swiftly reminds us, from Chopin. The message is clear: if art and music are corrupted, the rest must follow. For me this is arguably the definitive piece written about the Holocaust in the English-speaking theatre.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-03-28 00:00:00 Anthony Sanjurjo Very moving description of Nazi era and how methodical the regime was in grooming and co-opting people who were either neutral or sympathetic.