Jack Campin, the Cabaret song was "Tomorrow belongs to ME," which makes its message even more pointed. Murray linked to a youtube version in which the US flag replaced the swastikas, but we don't need such in-your-face devices to understand humankind's terrifying capacity to be led by the nose. You can't herd cats, but you can herd humans. What happened in the film could happen anywhere, or at least anywhere where people had been made to taste dirt, as Germans had been in the aftermath of WW1.

The very fact that Murray is seduced by the song shows what a potent piece of work it was. The way it was handled in the film for which it was written is still, 30-odd years later, one of the most spinechilling sequences I have seen in the cinema (the dramatic impact of the song wonderfully enhanced with at least three stunning key changes). I cannot imagine what it must be like to sit through it if you are a Jew, a gay, a black or - it seems - a Serb (cf one of McGrath's posts above).

The urge to persecute those weaker than ourselves seems to be part of the human condition. I remember in South Africa and Zimbabwe seeing "coloureds" (as they were classified by their white masters), having been granted certain trivial privileges, abusing their "kaffir" servants and wallowing in their superior status. Whata pathetic spectacle hey made.