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Asking the Right Questions: First
Step Toward the Truth
Taking Sides
(DVD)
February 28,
2005
This profound film,
played by the very able actors, asks two important
questions, which had been almost invariably played down and
silenced for 60 years after the WWII -- until now. 1) If
most of the Germans didn't know what horrors were
perpetrated by the Nazis, how come the same innocent Germans
knew very well, at the same time, that they had to save
their favorite Jews? 2) A genius conductor, Wilhelm
Furtwaengler, has never become a member of the Nazi party,
and actually saved many Jewish musicians, apart from giving
us the best existing performances of Beethoven and many
other masters. Not a genius at all, Herbert von Karajan has
been an enthusiastic Nazi party member and the favorite
musician of the Nazi regime, he never saved anybody but his
own precious skin, and bored to death generations of
classical music lovers. How come the post-WWII crowd of
anti-fascist communists, gays and atonalists, taking over
all musical institutions, has boycotted Furtwaengler until
his death and beyond, but immediately embraced and
befriended von Karajan, making "little k" rich, famous, and
one of their self-appointed elite? If you can find an answer
to the second question, you know an answer to the whole of
the 20th century. -
Alexander Feht
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