tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post114492764292294133..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: What was on Hitler's iPod?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1145377075335942482006-04-18T17:17:00.000+01:002006-04-18T17:17:00.000+01:00Yes, thanks.That's exactly what I wanted to say. G...Yes, thanks.<BR/><BR/>That's exactly what I wanted to say. Germany got cured and is still making efforts.<BR/><BR/>Ever heard - in music - about that sort of things in Austria, Flanders or , yes indeed Norway?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1145299358801956122006-04-17T19:42:00.000+01:002006-04-17T19:42:00.000+01:00In the list of important 20th century works trigge...In the list of important 20th century works triggered by the events of 1933 - 1945 I have written about here I should have included <A HREF="http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2006/01/holocaust-operas-rare-performance.html" REL="nofollow">Viktor Ullman's</A> holocaust opera the <I>The Emperor of Atlantis.</I>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1145290355780385362006-04-17T17:12:00.000+01:002006-04-17T17:12:00.000+01:00Bernard, having travelled a lot in Germany recentl...Bernard, having travelled a lot in Germany recently I found that the <I>'much too young world'</I> in Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Zwickau and elsewhere is still very much affected by the events of 1933 - 1945. <BR/><BR/>This is reflected not just in my articles on these cities, but also in contemporary events across Europe, including the emerging eastern countries of Belarus and the Ukraine, and in contemporary music such as Arvo Pärt's <I>Berliner Messe</I> and Rudolf Mauersberger's <I>Dresdner Requiem</I>. <BR/><BR/>Fortunately historians and researchers have not stopped studying history because it happened <I> 'many years ago'.</I><BR/><BR/>Traudl Junge's book, which this article was taken from, was originally published in Germany (<I> Bis zur letzem Stunde, Hitlers Sekretarin erzahlt ihr Lenben</I>) in <B>2002</B>.<BR/><BR/>And I make no apologies for a forthcoming article based on two new, and valuable, books on the the bombing of Dresden published here in the UK <B>this year</B>. They are <I>Among the Dead Cities</I> by the philosopher A.C. Grayling, and <I>Firestorm, the Bombing of Dresden, 1945,</I> edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1145287764693065082006-04-17T16:29:00.000+01:002006-04-17T16:29:00.000+01:00Pliable, you're much more British than you think y...Pliable, you're much more British than you think you are.<BR/><BR/>Why do you keep focussing on nazism as a German story? <BR/><BR/>Germany recovered from that story , many years ago. OK, Austria and my own Flanders didn't. Germany did.It did. Result : much, múch more neo - conservatism ( ultra rifgt wing party influence ) in FR than in GE.<BR/><BR/>Is it that difficult for the UK? <BR/><BR/>Prof. Stern : the most profound antagony within the current EU = the one between UK and GE.<BR/><BR/>Pliable, you were born too old in a much too young world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1145255127127826142006-04-17T07:25:00.000+01:002006-04-17T07:25:00.000+01:00Traudl Junge's book is quite extraordinary. Is the...Traudl Junge's book is quite extraordinary. Is the breathtaking naivety genuine, or just plain ingeneous?<BR/><BR/>As thousands die in the Battle of Berlin and countless more are maimed or raped, she writes: <BR/><BR/><I>Any moment now we expect the Russians to storm the bunker. All our dogs are dead. The dog-walker has done his duty and shot our beloved pets before they can be torn to pieces up in the park by an enemy grenade or bomb.</I><BR/><BR/>And the woman who spent three years as Hitler's private secretary writes of Munich in 1947: <BR/><BR/><I>It was wonderful to be living under American democracy. I hadn't realized before that I wasn't hearing music by any Polish or Russian composers, couldn't read Jewish literature ... that so much was banned or taboo. All of a sudden the intellectual world opened up again.</I><BR/><BR/>Unbelievable ...<BR/><BR/>Editor Melissa Muller's contribution gives food for thought, particularly her take on the denazification process that Junge,and all Germans over the age 0f 18, including Furtwängler,Gieseking, Kempff and Karajan (see the Lauterwasser link above),went through: <BR/><BR/><I>Denazification was a farce performed for purposes of rehabilitation - a unique attempt to subject the political attitudes of almost an entire population to national cleansing. Most Germans regard this as the end of the affair, and from then on preserve a collective silence about the Nazi period. This is also in the interests of the Allies themselves; Germans are needed as partners in the Cold War in both East and West. Furthermore, German politicians of the Adenauer period are courting the voters - and those politicians who are willing to go along with the demand to draw a final line under the past are more likely to win their favour.</I>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com