Bernard Chasan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Robert Peters:
>
>>...it is not so easy to give up the attitude of being a better and more
>>noble being just because one loves classical music.
>
>I never had that illusion, but if I did, it would have ended when, a
>few years ago, I saw a Nazi propaganda film (on Public Television perhaps)
>showing a string quartet of storm troopers or gestapo- I forget.

And Rheinhard Heydrich - Hitler's deputy until his 1941 (2?) assassination
in Yugoslavia (which led to the complete destrctuion of the village of
Lidice) - was reputedly a superb violinist.

Deryk Barker
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