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Berlin Puts ‘aryan’ Touch to Shakespeare

October 4, 1934
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An “Aryan-only” version of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” is being produced in Berlin by the Nazi “Strength-Through-Joy” movement.

Mendelssohn’s music had been discarded, because he was a Jew, in favor of a new setting by an “Aryan” composer.

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