The Manchester Guardian publishes a letter from Bronislaw Huberman, Polish-Jewish violin virtuoso now in the United States, in which German intellectuals are accused “as those truly guilty of the Nazi crimes.”
The letter recalls the assurances of Wilhelm Furtwaengler, German musician whose appointment as guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra has created an international furore, that himself and all real Germans condemned the Nuremberg brutalities.
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