Word: verboten
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...Nazi Germany it is verboten to listen to foreign broadcasts. Last week the British were planning a program that they hoped Germans would listen to in spite of prohibitions: Names of Nazi prisoners and dead and wounded identified by the Allies will be rushed to London from the front, broadcast to Germany on BBC's daily medium-wave news periods in German...
...strictly on the verboten list, B. B. C.'s straight and accurate news broadcasts nevertheless are not music to Gestapo ears. Germans caught listening to them in groups of three or more, for example, may find themselves in concentration camps. The B. B. C. broadcasts should have been hard for Gestapo snoopers to spot, because they are usually spoken in flawless German, but the Bow Bell chimes proved a dead giveaway. Last fortnight B. B. C. decided to keep the Bow Bells at home for the Cockneys, substituted for German ears a softly ticking metronome instead...
...orchestra glided dreamily into the Barcarolle from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. A little man stood up, gave the Nazi salute, shouted: "Verboten!" The orchestra switched to My Hero, from Oscar Straus's The Chocolate Soldier. Up sprang the little man again. The orchestra burst into Mendelssohn's Wedding March. The little man jumped up for the third time, screamed "Verboten...
...this particular time, an opera extolling peace by any other contemporary composer would probably have been quickly verboten by zealous Nazi censors. But Herr Doktor Richard Strauss is not only Germany's No. 1 composer. As one of the two most eminent composers in the world today (the other is Finland's Jean Sibelius), he is Naziland's No. 1 cultural exhibit. Even though he is a bad boy the Third Reich is loath to spank...
...Naziland, music by Jewish composers, performances by Jewish musicians, are strictly verboten. So that good Germans may know what music and which musicians to avoid, a Nazi Who's Who of Jewish musicians has been compiled. Its title: Judentum und Musik mil dem ABC jüdischer und nichtarischer Musik-beflissener. The third edition of this witching work, which last week reached U. S. shores, showed Nazi inquisitors to be more thorough than accurate. Among the prominent "Jewish" musicians listed: Chicago's retiring Yankee Composer John Alden Carpenter; rotund Danceband-leader Paul Whiteman; lusty, kewpie-faced Wagnerian Tenor...