Word: aryanized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franz Lehar, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow, still lives in Vienna. His friends say he cannot get out. He has paid out millions of marks to safeguard his wife, a "non-Aryan." But most of the other men who wrote Vienna's waltzes in better days are now in the U.S. and last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall a concert of Viennese music, from Mozart to Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time, testified to their presence...
...peacetime winters Garmisch is almost as cosmopolitan as St. Moritz or Antibes, and though visitors this year, except for newspaper men, were almost 100% Aryan German, the effect remained. The expensive ladies of Germany's first families were blanketed in furs that looked as if they came from Paris, the men in tweeds that certainly came from England. Youngsters in the Alpenhof bar sang Night and Day and St. Louis Blues in English...
...that reason significant. it is significant also because it is facing with courage and with practical activity a problem of the future which is a concern both of the non-Jews and of Jews themselves. It is trying to educate the Jew to live in an Aryan culture without destroying his own. Because it acts with other liberal organizations, it is a most important force for the preservation of the democratic spirit in young minds. And by helping the Jews, it is doing its part to keep from all Americans the horrors of anti-Semitism and Fascism at home...
...Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and goddesses in his Ring of the Nibelungs; he and his wife Cosima were also openly antiSemitic, believed and spread the racial nonsense preached by Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Yet Wagner himself was perhaps what Nazis call non-Aryan. He may have been the son of a supposedly part-Jewish actor named Ludwig Geyer. Last week this old contention, long pishtushed by German Wagnerites, was bolstered by new evidence...
...first two volumes of his mammoth Life of Richard Wagner, scholarly Biographer Ernest Newman, musicritic of the London Sunday Times, viewed the Geyer issue from a safe perch on the fence. In the third volume, published this week (Knopf; $5), Mr. Newman let himself carefully down on the non-Aryan side. Fundamental premise: Geyer was a lodger in the household of Police Actuary Carl Friedrich Wagner in Leipzig; there is no evidence that he was not there in the late summer of 1812, when Johanna Rosina Wagner conceived the child who was to be called Richard. New evidence...