Steve Schwartz offers a precis concerning musicians under National
Socialism:

>...  As for Furtwaengler, he certainly was less involved with the regime
>than either Tietjens or Karajan, and, though I have no way to prove it,
>he is said to have done what he could to save Jewish musicians.  But
>this never gets brought up or is trivialized, perhaps because it
>contradicts the accusation....

A fair appraisal, I think--as is the rest of Steve's posting.  Applying
lateral vision it might be worth noting that about half of the musicians
that the posting deals with were Bavarian-based and very big names in
Munich.("the capital of the [Nazi] movement").  Furtwaengler came from
a Munich family of high-society Bildungsbuerger; Strauss was Bavaria's
star composer and an important local conductor, to boot; Orff was
considered about as untouchable as the other two.  From such pedestals
and with the squish of the regime's spiritual capital behind them, they
could afford to take a risk or two.  I salute them for it.

Denis Fodor