edgar anslem bower wrote the period immediately following the warsaw throughout the world a sexual exuberance which in germany reached an intensity. and then he talks about gay sex, straight sex, and he says it is hard to conceive of a much more tolerant society. thinking about what comes later, that feels like quite a statement. and people like, for instance, josephine baker who we always associate with performing in paris, in 1925, she decides to bring her whole on psalm to a berlin theater and even though there's protesters outside, inside, she gets a tremendous ovation. she's showered with gifts, jewelry, furs invited to these wild after parties. and where she often performs in her loin cloth and she says, you know, paris parties are nothing to compare with. someone like phillip johnson comes for the architecture. he's also a young, gay american. and he's just astounded by the atmosphere in berlin. so all of this brings an amazing cast of american kashlgters to germany. people like sinclair lewis, thomas wolf, george cannon later who was associated much more with russia, howard case smith