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...small, bare, stuffy room in Berlin, a 60-year-old man sat nervously in a straight-backed chair, facing an eight-man tribunal. He was a famous man, a great conductor-Wilhelm Furtwängler. With a nervous stammer he groped for words...
...witness testified that, although Furtwängler was the Nazi-appointed Staatsrat (state councilor) of Prussia, he had conducted only four times at Nazi Party affairs, had turned down 60 invitations. Another witness, a Jew, said that Furtwängler had saved his life,' and the lives of other Jews. For nearly two hours last week the Germans on the tribunal, three of whom had been in concentration camps, deliberated. Their verdict: Wilhelm Furtwängler was not guilty of collaboration...
...holy devotion, as if the Pope appeared at Saint Peter's Cathedral in front of a crowd of believers. Klemperer is one of the very few great living conductors; he can be compared only to Toscanini, Bruno Walter and-let us say it without political prejudice-Furtwängler...
...Last week Furtwängler was invited by the Russians to return to Berlin as director of the Staatsoper and senior cultural adviser to Russians in Germany. The invitation was opposed by the U.S., which suspects he was a Nazi sympathizer...
Wilhelm Furtwängler, unofficially banned last fall (as a "tool" of the Nazis) from resuming as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, was permanently banned by U.S. military government authorities. Brigadier General Robert A. McClure decided that the famed conductor's early anti-Naziism had weakened. As he had last December, Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin bravely stuck his neck out for his fellow artist, cabled the General: "I beg to take violent issue. . . . The man was never a Party member ... I believe it is patently unjust...