Norman M. Schwartz wrote:

>Unfortnately this topic always gets away from MUSIC itself, but surely you
>must understand that witnessing your parents, children or siblings being
>dragged away for slavery, torture, "medical experimentation", starvation
>and death with the tunes of *any* composer, ringing in your head,
>particularly a confirmed anti-Semite, is not going to sit well with any
>normal and sensitive human being.

It's a particularly ghoulish subject, but I've read that the music played
to these atrocities was just as often light operetta music (a la Strauss,
Lehar, etc.) as Wagner.

wm