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a woman from this sort of backround, sharing his bed and breakfast table for the duration of his professional life, would infact probably infiltrate some of his writing.


At the same time, the English had plentiful experience of Nazi atrocities. Their homeland was under assault and their army helped to liberate some of the Nazi death camps. With such a background, Kneale could have done his Nazi allegory without a Jewish spouse to focus his mind. If Q2 is, in fact, a Holocaust allegory, then who do the blobs from outer space represent, allegorically? Would Kneale's wife approve of depicting the Nazis as alien life forms who can't breathe oxygen, or as mindless zombies? If that were the case, even allegorically, then German history of the 1930s and '40s offers nothing for us to reflect upon or learn from. The movie (I haven't seen the tv show) seems to treat the evil-government secrecy & complicit commoners theme(s) more broadly than this, as Bill Warren and others have stated. It's quite natural to be reminded of the Holocaust as Q2 plays out, especially when the locals wear blinders and refuse to face the horrible truth. But in Germany the locals presumably knew the horrible truth - they weren't just dupes. For me Q2 works as a "cautionary tale," in the tradition of IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE.