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To: In Maryland
Furtwangler went through a denazifaction process, didn't he?

There was a play about 15 years ago with Ed Harris playing his American interrogator. Not a good play but interesting. I was very good friends with the late Werner Klemperer. He told me that his father had nothing good to say about Furtwangler. I'm just repeating this - I know nothing about the real story.

41 posted on 08/19/2011 4:43:21 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Run, Sarah, Run! Please!)
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To: miss marmelstein

Not surprising - Klemperer was a great conductor and suffered greatly because of the Nazis. But, yes, Furtwangler underwent a denatizification procedure and was cleared, and was frequently used for broadcasts by RIAS (Radio in the American Sector).


49 posted on 08/23/2011 9:19:39 AM PDT by In Maryland ("The Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers." -Justice Clarence Thomas)
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