Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilhelm Furtwängler, unofficially banned last fall (as a "tool" of the Nazis) from resuming as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, was permanently banned by U.S. military government authorities. Brigadier General Robert A. McClure decided that the famed conductor's early anti-Naziism had weakened. As he had last December, Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin bravely stuck his neck out for his fellow artist, cabled the General: "I beg to take violent issue. . . . The man was never a Party member ... I believe it is patently unjust...
...Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed conductor of Berlin's Philharmonic Orchestra and Nazi-tainted Prussian State Councilor, was invited by Berlin's Soviet-sponsored mayor Arthur Werner to help direct the city's culture revival. Wrote the mayor: "German music. . . is trying . . .uncompromisingly [to realize] its genuine national value . . . Germany needs Furtwängler. . . ." The Russians benignly approved; U.S. authorities opposed the appointment...
This functional friendliness was not the Russians' only weapon. They also put on direct pressure for a merger of the Socialist and Communist parties. Last week, Communist Chairman Wilhelm Pieck set the date: "before May." Fusion would virtually assure a leftwing election victory, solidify Communist control of the Soviet zone...
...mass meeting held by Germany's four major parties (Social Democrats, Communists, Liberal Democrats and Christian Democrats) in Berlin's British sector, shrewd, grey Communist Leader Wilhelm Pieck called for national unity and informed the Nazi small fry that they were welcome as comrades. Said he: "We call on all the little members of the former Nazi party who committed no crimes . . . penitent, nominal Nazis. . . ." Among the three thousand people who jammed Berlin's massive, prison-like Radio Building, there were cries of: "We want no Nazis...
Missing from the prisoners' dock at Minsk's war-crimes trial was a notable offender-Wilhelm Kube, Commissioner General of Byelorussia during the German occupation. Last week's testimony told...