Word: himmlers
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...Goebbels told me that I could stay in Germany as an unpolitical artist. This I did. . . . I've never conducted in a conquered country. I didn't want to follow tanks into other people's countries. . . . Where was the music of Beethoven more needed than in Himmler's Germany? . . . I am no more guilty than a potato dealer who continued to sell potatoes in the Third Reich...
Ghosts. In Pittsburgh, a University of Pittsburgh student, handling registrations, complained: "Yesterday I registered a guy named Himmler. Today it was Goehring... if Hitler comes ... I quit...
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, burly, scar-faced No. 2 man to the late Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...
...Thomas Beecham, explosively opinionated conductor of the London Philharmonic, exploded again, this time not with a bang but a phfft. In May, recently home from a U.S. tour, he had called Hollywood "a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial." Now he qualified his damnation, decided that it was "the last word in triviality and morbidity...
...Heinrich Himmler, who in life looked like a cross between a wasp and a pig, looked different in death. His death mask (see cut), taken near Lüneburg, Germany, after his suicide (by swallowing potassium cyanide), might have been mistaken for that of a daft and drunken Silenus...