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Died. Leo Borchard, 53, Russian-born conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who fell from Nazi favor in 1937 when he refused to conduct the Nazi anthem, Horst Wessel, then was high in Allied favor after the fall of Berlin; shot by U.S. sentries when the British staff car in which he was riding failed to stop at their command, 35 minutes past curfew; in Berlin...
...Army sign says: "Free Swing Concert Tonight in the Mozart Theater." In Salzburg it is swing, in Vienna it is a tune somewhat more familiar to European ears. But unless the orchestras get together, the Austrians are more likely to listen to a new variation of that old Horst Wessel Lied, sung by men who are now fugitives in the mountains...
...corner of northwestern Germany the German war spirit still throve. Around the red brick Marine & Signal School in Flensburg milled armed German soldiers and sailors. Sometimes they drilled stiffly, sometimes they sang Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland and the Horst Wessel Lied...
Berlin posters cried birthday greetings to the Fiührer: "Our walls may crumble but our hearts stay firm." Tiredly, Propagandist Joseph Goebbels eulogized: "Even the greatest leaders of history will be faced with occasional setbacks." Discreetly the radio did not play the Horst Wessel Song or the refrain: Today Germany, tomorrow the world!; instead, it broadcast a Handel Concerto Grosso, Beethoven's Eroica...
...reach for power, it was as the herald of a "mass drama that was breaking over the nation." Heiden believes that few chose to deny the drama's "grandeur," whatever its brutality. "No political conviction could banish from the world the eternal march rhythm of the Horst Wessel song." And the money poured in when success seemed likely-"the power of accomplished facts called forth reluctant admiration...