Iain Simons <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>...  I believe somebody mentioned that Richard Strauss was also a member
>of the party.  It was my understanding that he remained neutral, as it
>were.  Due to this, however, he spent the majority of the post-war days
>in Switzerland.

He saw cooperating with the Nazis as a chance to protect his Jewish
relatives.  And believe me here that he would have done all he could to
protect those he had left, because in war time he already had 17 relatives
in concentration camps.

Mats Norrman
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