Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last four years of his life, Richard Strauss seldom heard his works performed by his own countrymen. The post World War II silent treatment was his penalty for having meekly allowed himself to be paraded as the artistic spirit of the Third Reich. But Strauss's death in 1949 seemed a signal for a West German revival of his music. Audiences eagerly returned to his masterworks. And this year, the 100th anniversary of his birth, the revival has become almost deafening...
...classic repertoire since the '20s, and outside Germany he had little need of a resurrection. World War I brought a ten-year lapse in the performance of Strauss in England, but World War II caused no lull in England or America. The Strauss of the Third Reich had been an old man, and after he was cleared by the denazification courts, it seemed only just to forgive and forget. Last year, in 175 orchestral performances of his works, Strauss became one of the most frequently played composers...
...well or to eat nonstarchy foods. Occasionally, beauty of a fascinating and slightly wicked kind did grow from the ruins, personified by that incomparable charmer, Marlene Dietrich. But then came the Nazis, who insisted that women's role was to keep house and bear children for the Third Reich. Pro claimed Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, head of all Nazi women's organizations: "Our weapon is the cooking spoon...
...thirds of all German news circulation outright and tightly controlled the rest. Not a line was printed without official approval, not an editor escaped the role of Nazi stooge. How this happened-and, more significantly, how easily it happened-is told in The Captive Press in the Third Reich (Princeton University Press; $6.50), by Oron J. Hale, 61, chairman of the history department of the University of Virginia and an acknowledged authority on the Hitler years...
German nationalization began with Bismarck, continued through the Weimar Republic and reached its climax in the Third Reich, which organized such huge enterprises as Volkswagen and the Salzgitter steelmaking complex to equip the army. Not a single firm has been nationalized since the war under the Christian Democrats. But still left over from the old days is a $2.5 billion government stake in companies that account for 40% of West Germany's iron ore production, 70% of aluminum, 60% of electricity and 80% of soft coal. In 1959 the government finally sold off to 216,000 German buyers...