Robert Peters ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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>No. But for most famous musicians living under Hitler it was possible
>to emigrate.  And as Thomas Mann said about his fellow writers it was
>their moral and political duty to do so.

But not everybody saw it that way.  Several fleeing Jewish artists,
including Schoenberg and IIRC Max Rheinhardt, encouraged Furtwaengler
to stay and do what he could to preserve what they saw as the "real"
German culture.

Deryk Barker
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