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Hi JosephVann, Thank you for the comment--you bring up some very good points. I would agree that this post is more of a musing. I wasn't trying to determining if vK was a good guy or a bad guy. I also wasn't interested in determining if Furtwangler was a good guy or not. Those two posts were intended to provide some superficial information about two, enormously influential conductors who stayed in Germany during the third reich. I'm pleased that someone cares enough about the topic to comment and to also go a little deeper into the issue. That vK's own ancestry may have endangered him is one possible reason for him making sure he was reinstated in 1939. Why he married the daughter of a rich, half Jewish man in 1942 is interesting because the man in question survived the war. Did vK do it and use his influence to shield his wife and father-in-law or did his father-in-law offer him financial "assistance" to marry his daughter in the first place? We don't know. What intrigues me is the tension between the policies of the third reich and the artists that stayed. The conductors that left are kind of a boring story. Otto Klemperer left and went to Los Angeles to conduct. Yawn. It was a necessary move for Klemperer and I admire him for it but that's really the end of the story--except that his son played the role of Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heros with the stipulation that Klink would never have the upper hand at the end of any episode. There are no good guys or bad guys. To place people into these two categories is a temptation that we would be better served to resist. Regarding your question, "Has something formally called "Anti-Semitism" ever existed as a formal political movement or party, that is, as a separate entity with something called "anti-semitism" as a central program for structuring the whole of political life?" The answer is no. However, we would be hard pressed to find any issue that is a central program for structuring the whole of political life. Certainly not freedom--maybe oil. If you want to investigate more into the politics of hate, look up Karl Lueger and the Austirain version of the Christian Social Party. Also look for Edouard Drumant and the Anti-Semitic League of France. While Antisemitism wasn't the central theme for these political movements, it was certainly present. Again thank you for the comment. Respectfully, Garrett
— March 22, 2011 9:36 a.m.

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