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What are you reading? July 15, 2022 [1]
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Date: 2022-07-15
In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…
I am reading:
End of a Berlin Diary : 1944-1947 by William L. Shirer- I didn’t read too much but only because Shirer basically turned over his November 10, 1945 diary entry to a note, a lecture, and BBC broadcast all by Thomas Mann. (Shirer was given the materials by Mann.) It is...intense.
Berlin, Saturday, November 10 (Letter from Thomas Mann to Walter von Molo) Can these twelve years and their consequences thus be wiped from the slate, and can we act as if they had never occurred? Hard enough and breath-taking enough was the shock in 1933 of the loss of my accustomed way of life, my home and my country, my books, souvenirs, and property, accompanied as it was by all the wretched happenings, expulsions, desertions… *** Some weeks ago, I made a speech in the Library of Congress about “Germany and the Germans.”:.. It was an attempt to show to an educated American public, from a psychological point of view, how it all could happen in Germany...I outlined briefly the story of Germany’s soul. I repudiated the theory of the “two Germanys”— a “good” Germany and a “bad” Germany. The bad Germany, I stated, is the good Germany which failed, the good Germany in misery, in a state of guilt and downfall.
Shirer adds his own comments about other German artists.
[Was this not what was wrong with the greatest composer of our time, Richard Strauss, whom Mann, in his broadcast, castigates for his “monumental” cynicism and callousness? Here were Germany’s two greatest artists in the art in which modern Germany was pre-eminent— music— ...lending their world-wide reputations, their their magnificent talents, their great names, to a barbarous German regime that was murdering and prostituting art and crucifying mankind, from which art springs.]
Shirer speculates that the other musician besides Richard Strauss is symphony conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. (Shirer, as it turns out, is being very unfair to Furtwängler, FTR.)
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