Yes, but did you notice how the "ideas" of the playwright he defends are never articulated, and did you notice how the playwright sort of sails on to the same elevated lifestyle when E Germany is liberated, whereas the appartchick gets his appointed oblivion, and did you notice how they never actually meet and shake hands, because they belong to different classes, and did you notice how freedom is "good" because it restores each class to its rightful place?
I'm not saying they were conscious of this message, just that it was there.
Joanna