GROSS: OK, which means this is Claire Waldoff, a cabaret singer and a lesbian performer, recorded in Germany in 1932.
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CLAIRE WALDOFF: (Performing in German).
GROSS: that has been Claire Waldoff, a track picked for people by Robert Beachy, the writer for the book that is newGay Berlin, ” which can be concerning the homosexual subculture in Berlin into the 1920s and very early ’30s, prior to the Nazi increase to energy.
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