Anne Ozorio wrote: >As with Steve and Leon, I think that rushing too fast to judgement without >seeking out facts is unwise: that's what "they" did and we don't want >to be even remotely like "them". (but I know from experience Robert has >a good and true heart). Thank you - but apart from this I mentioned some pretty nasty facts about Strauss. >One day I was working in the archives and keyed in a wrong search number. >To my amazement out popped Furtwangler's original file from 1945/6 which >gave details of his denazification trial, evidence pro and con. The >enquiries were extensive but he was cleared. After all, he had stood >up to Goebbels and gone into temporary internal exile. This is not a hero for me. Furtwangler knew that he was of importance to the regime. He lived in prosperity. Other composers were gassed. Now who are the real victims we should pity: Furtwangler, Karajan and Strauss or artists who died in Auschwitz? Robert