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Officially, Europe's gypsies were to be liquidated as a political and social menace to the German State. But to Rudolf Hoess* their innocent arrival at his camp was always excellent private entertainment. Life at Oswiecim had grown rather dull. True, Hoess had the satisfaction of having built up Oswiecim from a mere Polish artillery barracks to Germany's most up-&-coming death camp. And of course he could always find some amusement at the gas chambers, the first three of which he had constructed himself with great pioneering ingenuity...
...British finally caught Rudolf Hoess in a farmhouse near Lüneburg where he had been hiding. They would soon put him on trial as a war criminal. In some ways, perhaps, he was the greatest of them all. He told his story with quiet authority, as though lecturing to a class, underscoring his points with deliberate gestures of his well-kept hands. He still sounded rather bored; only occasionally did he show signs of nervousness-when he reached for his hip pocket, as though searching...
...confused with wit-wandering Rudolf Hess, now on trial at Nürnberg...
Fritz grew up to be musical director of the Dresden State Opera; Adolf founded the famed Busch Quartet. They all left Germany when Hitler's first anti-Jewish law went into effect and have never been back-though of all the family only son-in-law Rudolf Serkin is Jewish. Two unmusical Busches are still in Germany. Says Mrs. Adolf: "We don't even know if they are living, and don't want...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major (Rudolf Serkin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). A pretentious old warhorse in new harness. Serkin plays it louder but not better than Horowitz did with Father-in-Law Toscanini in Victor's 1941 recording. Performance: fair...