His tendency to regard Germany and the Germans as history's villains out of an almost timeless law of nature, has been regarded by some as racial prejudice. Such a generalization of guilt for the war's horrors, such a derailing of guilt by pointing to indwelling human nature, we find too in several of the song texts in The Bird Lovers . We share guilt in everything, rest assured. Nonetheless the play is in the last analysis a teaching piece about economic forces as history's most important driving force. But the greatest of the three is money, for he who has money, he also has the police.
Money can move mountains.
If we look at the song texts from the two musicals we have discussed, almost half of the song lyrics express religious attitudes in one sense or another. This applies not least to Marxists, who would prefer to keep their path clear of metaphysical weeds. It is interesting to note that Caruso's outburst was cut in the Polish version of The Bird Lovers . On my part the juxtaposition was made consciously. The intervention from outside does violence to the play's idea, to its form of irony, and to its form of ambiguity.