Word: staatsrat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sauerbruch went to Berlin's Charité Hospital as head of the surgical clinic and has been there ever since. He now insists that he thought all along that the Nazis were crazy. But he accepted three Nazi awards for his services-the title of Staatsrat (for doctoring President von Hindenburg), the German National Prize and a post as advisory surgeon to the Army during World War II. Meanwhile, in public speeches, Dr. Sauerbruch demanded "freedom" for German scientists. In the final battle of Berlin, he sent a courier to Hitler demanding in the name of the endangered Charit...
...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...
Whether Berlin's great conductor Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler was or was not a Nazi hardly seemed worth arguing. Goring gave him the highest Government job held by a musician, that of Nazi Staatsrat (State Councilor) of Prussia. When he fled Germany to Switzerland last February, the Zurich Municipal Council canceled two sold-out concerts he was sched uled to lead. Three days later, Furtwängler conducted in the Swiss industrial town of Winterthur, and the fire department had to turn hoses on 4,000 workers demon strating outside the hall. Since then, Furtwängler...
Last week Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, back from a European tour, made a strong appeal for the Nazi Staatsrat, made even stronger by the fact that Menuhin is Jewish. He said: "If there is one musician who deserves to be reinstated, it is Furtwängler. ... It is well known that he held on to the Jewish members of his orchestra as long as he possibly could. . . . He would be welcomed in Paris. If Paris can take a German, I'm sure we should have no qualms about...
...Willem Mengelberg, permanently barred from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (TiME, Aug. 13) for conducting German orchestras, is living alone near St. Moritz rather than return to face the music. At Lake Geneva gray-haired Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Göring-appointed Nazi Staatsrat of Prussia, is writing a symphony. In Wiesbaden, bald Pianist Walter Gieseking played twice for U.S. Army audiences before someone got wind of his wartime collaboration. He was promptly forbidden to make another appearance...
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