ABSTRACT
Berlin, 1945. It seems distinctly odd that, in the late summer of that year, at the end of the most destructive war in human history, the victorious allied armies occupying the German capital should take it upon themselves to act as Masters of the Revels. Yet in addition to the countless tasks inseparable from the administration of a huge city now reduced to rubble, each of them solemnly embarked on the business of censoring plays.
