Word: aryanized
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...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...
Franz Lehar, venerable (74), Hungarian-born Viennese operetta king, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow (1905), was reported under "house arrest" in his Vienna home. Aryan Lehar's only other reported brush with the Nazis occurred three years ago when he refused to obey Nazi orders to leave his Jewish wife...
Judge Pailhé summoned the witnesses. They testified, and their evidence was damning. Chack had received 68,000 francs a month from the Vichy Government, had founded a French "Aryan Club." The public prosecutor pointed at the defendant, cried: "I demand that you be shot. . . . Such a man as you can expect no mercy...