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Denis Fodor wrote:
>Strauss did spend some time in Switzerland after the war but unlike
>Furtwaengler whose denazification didn't go as smoothly as apparently
>Strauss' did, the latter probably went over the border because times were
>not nearly as hard over there as they were in Germany. (Both men had money
>stashed away in Switzerland and hence no problem sustaining themselves and
>their families.)
Which was a capital offense in the Third Reich, irrespective of
the possessor's ethnicity or religion. This was another impediment to
immigration for lesser mortals in the pre WWII years when the USA was still
in the grip of mass unemployment. You weren't supposed to come here to
take a job that an American could otherwise hold. You weren't supposed to
come here to become a public charge. You couldn't draw on any money you
had in Germany after you came here. And finally, if you disclosed that
you had a nest egg abroad, you were executed before you could leave the
country. Only an affidavit of support from a US resident, plausibly
supported, could qualify a would be immigrant from Germany to come here.
wm
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