THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Nazi Music Prof. Invited to U.S. Conference
By ROCHELLE
SAIDEL-WOLK
Conference to be held in
North Carolina in April.
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Thirty-one members of
man who has- been iden- the Columbia University
tified as a former Nazi Music Department in New
musicologist has been in- York City have protested
vited to participate in a the inclusion of ,Wolfgang
Mendelssohn-Schumann
Boetticher, an expert on
Schumann, who now
teaches at the University of
Gottingen, West Germany,
in the conference. They
have sent a petition to the
conference organizers, Prof.
CARD 'n GIFT
R. Larry Todd of Duke Uni-,
versity and Prof. Jon Finson
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criminal Alfred Rosenberg,
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the world of music.
In "Musik im Dritten
Reich: Eine Dokumenta-
FOR
tion" (Music in the Third
YOUR
Reich: A Documenta-
tion"), author Joseph
Wulf quotes from the of-
ficial Nazi "Lexikon der
CADILLAC
Juden in der Musik"
("Encyclopedia of the
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The
official
Nazi
encyclopedia singled out
specific Nazi collaborators
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time the Na: is drove out
every Jewish artist, com-
poser, and performer of
music, depriving them of
livelihood.
Wulfs published findings
also state that Boetticher
wrote in the March 1938
issue of "Die Musik"
("The Music"), a book re-
view highly critical of the
author's objective treat-
ment of • Jewish
musicologists, replete with
anti-Semitic tirades. Boet-
ticher was also the author of
an infamous 1941 mono-
graph on Schumann, in
which he identified all Jews
with asterisks and distorted
documentation to support
the Nazi racist ideology, ac-
cording to research by
Weiss.
In response to letters from
Weiss, Finson wrote:
"The directors of the
conference and the facul-
ties of both institutions
cannot .serve as Prof.
Boetticher's judges. The
conference must deal
with present reality, as
must modern-day
Schumann scholars who
would be crippled with-
out the sources under
Prof. Boetticher's con-
trol. Participation in the
conference will not serve
to endorse the moral
stance of any particular
individual."
Finson told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency: "Boet-
ticher is a distinguished
scholar on Schumann,
which motivated our invita-
tion. We had no idea of the
(Lexicon der Juden in der
Musik) book or his involve-
ment in it when we invited
him. I have yet to see a copy
of that book or proof that he
played an instrumental role
in it. I've received innuen-
dos and allegations but no
proof.
"For 35 years, this man
has been invited to other
American universities, to
Oxford and Cambridge and
to other international con-
ferences and there was
never any complaint" :
Dercacz admitted in a
1980 interview that he had
served in a police unit in the
town of Navy Yarychev.
Judge Neaher said in his
ruling that during the time
of Dercacz's service, the
town's 2,000 Jews had been
"rounded up and killed by
German forces."
The U.S: government is
also seeking deportation
of Alexander Lehmann,
62, accused of taking part
in the execution of 300 to
350 Jews in Zaporozhe,
the Ukraine, while serv-
ing as a police official in
1942.
Lehmann, a retired tool
and die maker now residing
in Cleveland, has been ac-
cused in Federal District
Court of entering the
United States illegally in
1957 by concealing his past.
He denies the allegation but
admits that he served as a
sentry during the German
occupation of the Ukraine.
Lehmann is not a U.S. citi-
zen and thus subject to de-
portation.
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Menten Loses
European Appeal
. Pieter Menten, a con-
victed Nazi war criminal,
has lost his appeal to the
European Human Rights
Commission in Strasbourg
to .intervene against the
10-year prison sentence
given him by a Rotterdam
district court in July 1980.
The court also fined him
100,000 Guilders ($40,000).
Menten, 82, was found
guilty of complicity in the
murders of 30 persons,
mostly Jews, in the village
of Podhorodze in eastern
Galicia in June 1941 where
he served with the SS. He
appealed to the Strasbourg
court on grounds that his
trial was conducted in con-
travention of the United
Nations Declaration on
Human Rights. The panel
ruled that it was not
authorized to hear his com-
plaint and in effect rejected
it.
***
That decision ended the
appeal
process for the
Actions Against
Dutch-born Nazi col-
Nazis in the U.S.
laborator who was once an
NEW YORK (JTA) — art dealer and was de-
Mikhail -Dercacz, a 73- scribed as a multi-
year-old Queens resident, millionaire.' His arrest in
had his citizership revoked 1977 marked the beginning
last week by a federal judge of one of the longest and
who ruled Dercacz had con- most, complicated war
cealed his role as a Ukrai- crimes prosecutions ever
nian policeman who had as- held in Holland.
sisted the Nazis in persecut-
In December 1977,
ing Jews when he applied
for admission to the United Menten was sentenced to
States in 1949 and for citi- 15 years imprisonment
zenship in 1954. According- by an Amsterdam district
to the Office of Special In- court. He claimed im-
vestigations of the Depart- munity, however, on
ment of Justice, Dercacz grounds that the Nether
participated in beatings and lands Justice Minister
executions of unarmed had promised in 1952 that
Menten would not be
Jewish civilians in Lvov.
Brooklyn Federal Judge prosecuted fOr his war-
Edward Neaher ruled that time activities.
Dercacz had made "a willful
Although the minister,
misrepresentation of his long since deceased, could
wartime service" when he not confirm this, The Hague
successfully applied for district court quashed the
immigration and citizen- sentence. The public 'pro-
. ship. He found that the de- secutor appealed that deci-
fendant had told federal of- sion and Menten was
ficialsin 1949 that he had brought to trial a second
been a farmer in Poland time in Rotterdam and con-
"from 1941 to 1944."
victed again.
Friday, February 12, 1982 23
Berlin to Check Terrorists?
BONN (JTA) — The West
Berlin Senate is considering
means to check the flow •of
Arab terrorists into the city
from East Berlin.
According to the police,
hundreds of Arab ex-
tremists have infiltrated
West Berlin after receiving
training in terrorist tactics
in East Germany as part of
that country's program of
military assistance to the
Palestine Liberation
Organization.
Meanwhile, West Berlin
police say Arabic newspap-
ers have refused to cooper-
ate in •their search for a
mystery woman who was
seen leaving the Israeli-
owned Mifgash Israel re-
staurant in West Berlin
shortly before it was de-
stroyed by a bomb explosion
that killed a 14-month-old
child and injured 25 other
people, many of them seri-
ously, Jan. 15.
According to the
police, the Arabic news-
papers rejected appeals
to publish descriptions of
the woman who appears
to be a prime suspect in
the bombing. The ap-
proach to the Arabic
papers indicated that the
authorities believe the
woman may be in a Mid-
dle Eastern country.
A police spokesman said
there was no knowledge
whatsoever of her whereab-
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Bnai Zion Cites
Mrs. Jacobson
NEW YORK — Mrs.
Charlotte Jacobson, chair-
man of the American Sec-
tion of the World Zionist
Organization and president
of the Jewish National
Fund, will receive the 1982
Dr. Harris J. Levine Memo-
rial Award at the 74th an-'
nual awards dinner of Bnai
Zion in New York on Feb.
21.
Also being honored at the
dinner is Senator Bob
Packwood of Oregon.
Mrs. Jacobson will be
cited "for a lifetime of dis-
tinguished leadership on
behalf of Zionist and other
Jewish causes."
The multitude is always
in the wrong.
— Wentworth Dillon
cecilles
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outs, although it is likely
, that she is no longer in Be-
rlin or even in Europe.
Immediately after the
bombing, several Palesti-
nian terrorist groups
claimed responsibility for
the outrage. A number of
Palestinian suspects were
arrested but released for
lack of evidence.
The police said they_were
considering all possibilities.
Suspicion has shifted from
Palestinian extremists • to
neo-Nazi elements.
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