Word: dueppel
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...Tempelhof in Berlin, arrangements were made to seat 2,000 Jewish D.P.s. But when Yehudi showed up, he found only 600 in the audience. He demanded an investigation, learned that the camp paper at Dueppel Center had carried a long attack on him, signed by its editor, a man called Jonas of Lemberg...
Next day, at his own insistence, 31-year-old Jewish Violinist Menuhin faced 2,000 Jews at Dueppel Center. This time he left his fiddle at home. Yes, he had played for the Germans. "I have played for the hard-pressed wherever and whenever I could. . . . You are truly the victims of Naziism, but the tragedy is that you have grown to be like the Nazis. . . . You make your judgments on a racial basis, and you demand that art and music be harnessed in the cause of hate. Love and not hate will heal the world...
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