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In Reply to: Nazi Party Affiliation? posted by DevilDawgMom on August 3, 2006 at 19:48:05:
...not even because she was a brilliant artist - and make no mistake, Elizabeth Shwarzkopf was a very great singer, even if her moral choices were corrupt.BTW, I was merely trying to give that inmate who inquired a capsule bio of ES. Which is why I included the remark about her looks, which is undoubtedly the least important thing about her.
Former Nazi affiliation in Germany can be more complex than one can imagine - I have distant relatives in Germany who were imprisoned during WWII as well as ones who fought for the Reich. Undoubtedly some of those were party members.
I can understand your feelings as well as your father's. One of my dear friends was a POW in the Pacific theater and hated all things Japanese until the end of his life.
I'm not offerng excuses for Schwarzkpf. She did what she did, which implies a tacit consent to the aims of the 3rd Reich or a turing of a blind eye to their agenda at the very least, all for furthering her career. The Third Recih was a monstrous regime, but not all Nazis were monsters. However, if you cannot abide her, that is your privelege.
I do listen to some of her recordings, as I do to those of Furtwengler, Fisher-Dieskau and von Karajan. That is *my* privelege.
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