THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Fr iday, July 4, 1958— 1 2

Nazi Stifling of an Artistic
Collaboration Shown Graphically
in Zweig-Strauss Correspondence

German Court SeeksWitnesses of Nazi

Witnesses who can testify to
the activities of two of Hitler's
most notorious executioners of
Hungarian Jewry are being
sought throughout North and
South America by the World
Jewish Congress in New York.
The search Is iperng conducted
on the basis of a communication
of a Frankfurt (West Germany)
judge investigating char g e s
against two former high SS
officers, Hermann Krumey and
Otto Hunsche, now held by
Frankfurt authorities.
The two men are being
charged with having taken a
major part in the ghettoization
and deportation to extermina-

tion camps of several hundreds
of thousands of Hungarian
Jews, and of being accessories
to their murder. In addition,
they are accused of extorting
large sum of money from some
of their victims under threat
of deportation to extermination
camps unless their demands
were met.
In his letter to the World
Jewish Congress, Judge Grabert
of the Frankfurt District Court
said he required persons able
to testify from personal experi-
ence about the crimes in both
Austria and Hungary with
which Krumey and Hunsche
are charged, or to name other
witnesses.

rimes by Two Men

itnesses are requested to
contact Dr. Nehemiah Robinson,
World Jewish Congress, 15 E.
84th St., New York, or Judge
Grabert directly, District Court,
Gerichtsstrasse 2, Frankfurt on

Too often, in mourning the Zweig displays again his high-
6,000,000 Jews who fell victim est regards for Strauss, historic
to Hitler and Nazism, people events made any further cor-
the Main, Germany.
tend to take the figure as an respondence impossible. An ar-
aggregate tragedy — forgetting tistic friendship that developed
that each death, each persecu- most felicitously despite unf or-
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personal crime, outrage and iinaily tram ples ea by
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the ruthless dictatorial regime
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Robert Breuer's review, in the that silenced Strauss for many
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published collection of the cor- of Zweig, who took his own life
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respondence between the re- in Exile."
nowned composer Richard
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The letters exchanged be- other uses will shortly be manu- national air mail track and
tween the two cover a four- factured in Jerusalem, accord- field meet between Jewish Com-
year period between 1931 and ing to an announcement by the munity Centers in the United
1935, the era of Nazism flexing Israel Government Investment States and Great Britain, the
its developing muscles. Their Center in New York
Canton JCC defeated the Clap-
first correspondence is in the
The new plant will be jointly ton Jewish Youth Center and
form of an offer by Zweig to owned by Charles Frost, presi- the Victoria Boys Club of Lon-
write an operatic libretto for dent of Redmond Distributors, don, England, 59 to 46. The
Strauss. Strauss accepted and Inc., of New York and Amcor, meet was jointly sponsored by
was immensely pleased at their an Israel-American firm manu- the health and physical educa-
collaboration, the product of facturing refrigerat ors.
tion committee of the National
which was "The Silent Women,"
Jewish Welfare Board and the
based on a play by Ben John-
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collaboration, one which Strauss
wished very strongly to con-
tinue, the pressure of Nazi anti-
semitism is felt ever-increasing-
ly as the friendship and artistic
alliance progresses. Visits were
paid Strauss by the German
propaganda minister Goebbels
with the purpose of intimidat-
ing him against his continued
collaboration with Zweig, and
Strauss' continued association
with Zweig eventually cost
him his position as president of
the Reichsmusikkammer.
At one point Strauss writes
Zweig after the premiere of
their work, "And so it came to
pass, the work alone, has won,
although Hitler and Goebbels
did not attend . . . it is a sad-
dening time when an artist of
my caliber has to ask a little
boy of a cabinet minister for
permission what to compos,e and
to perform and what not to.
Now I too belong to the servants
,and the waiters--and I almost
envy my persecuted Stefan
Zweig who refuses definitely
to work with me, either openly
or secretly as he does not want
to get 'special treatment' from
the Third Reich ... My lifework
seems to have reached its end
completely . . . I could have
created much more."
In a record Strauss kept, he
notes, "I was accused of be-
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forced off the stage, on "higher
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