Regarding murder and music, Deryk said: >...apparently deputy fuhrer Reinhard Heydrich (whose assassination in >1941 led to particularly bloody reprisals in what was once Yugoslavia) >was a very good violinist. The Czech Republic, actually: Heydrich was Reich Protector of Bohemia-Moravia (the "Sudetenland," plus). It's highly unlikely that there will ever exist anything to match the 'Final Solution' that Heydrich is said to have announced at the Wannsee conference on the 20th of January, 1942. That said, after having read WG Sebald's "On the Natural History of Destruction" I should add that we'd be remiss to overlook that, during the 2nd World War, many music lovers very likely manned those planes piloted by Brits, Poles, Canadians, Australians and, after '42, USAmericans, to pummel more than 130 German towns and cities into rubble. About half of this book collects pieces skirting around this subject, and Sebald would surely grumble about their post-mortem assembly as his "final work." Even so, the parts of it that treat this seldom-discussed episode of that war make it a highly recommendable read of history from our own time. ...of the very kind, I can't help but add, that our Hollywood-'educated' leaders would be wise to read, to gain a better grasp of the real meaning of being at war. In any case, from the remoteness of those planes, these Allied fire-bombers killed more than 600,000 German civilians -- women, children, and old or very young men -- also for no military reason whatever. Incidentally, the town razed by the Germans in retaliation for Heydrich's assasination is the one named in Martinu's 'Memorial to Lidice.' Bert Bailey