Word: aryanized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idealization of the original Ku Klux Klan as the South's knights in shining armor, became the first million-dollar movie (The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Lawyer, politician, Baptist minister, son of a Klan founder, he capitalized on race prejudice, harped loud & long on white ("Aryan") supremacy, sold over 5,000,000 copies of his 20 novels...
...method was hardly original - nor even "Aryan." Aged King David (Kings 1: 1:1-4) was thus warmed by Abishag, a fair young virgin Shunammite, when his body "gat no heatt; But the experiment had been no more successful in Jerusalem than it was in Dachau...
...prelude, Amsterdamers had done a little Dutch-cleansing of their own, kicking out five Dutch collaborationists. They had also removed the blue paint which the Germans had smeared over the names of "non-Aryan" composers on the concert-hall frieze; now the names of Mendelssohn and Mahler were again visible...
...Aryan" scapegoats of the Nazis, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) led the musical list. The Third Reich outlawed the playing of Mendelssohn's music, destroyed his statues and commissioned an "Aryan" to rewrite his Midsummer Night's Dream score...
...pianist was 75-year-old Franz Lehar, the world's greatest living composer of operetta music. His first brush with the Nazis came when he refused to leave his "non-Aryan" wife. After a second arrest, he moved to the Austrian town of Bad Ischl. Army G.I.s found him there last week. The portly oldster spoke of the future: "Music will come again . . . I shall write . . . about the struggle of peoples for freedom. There are many things in my head and tomorrow I start to work...