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Nazi Paper Asks Bar on Mozart Operas Because Librettist Was Jew

September 28, 1936
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Although Mozart himself was a pure “Aryan,” the Voelkischer Beobachter, chief Nazi party organ, has demanded his operas be prohibited “because the librettos emanate from the Jew, Levi.”

“The German Mozart,” the paper declared, “must be released from the Jewish Levi.”

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