General Hermann Wilhelm Goering, as rabid an anti-Semite as the Nazi movement has produced, must be going soft. At any rate, the racial theories cherished by German Fascism don’t mean very much to the burly assistant of Reichsfuehrer Hitler when they happen to clash with his ambition to make the Reich’s theatre and opera as good as any in Europe.
This was made apparent today when it was learned that he has appointed a Jew, Leo Blech, as assistant conductor of the Opera Unter den Linden.
Goering had set himself a precedent when he imported Clemens Krauss from Austria to replace Wilhelm Furtwaengler as chief conductor when the latter resigned because of his disapproval of Nazi interference with the arts. Krauss is a half Jew.
Alexander Kipnis, the renowned
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