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 The Original the University of North JELLY BELLY of Carolina at Chapel Hill. According to research by 1 /2 lb. ASSORTED PKG. Prof. Piero Weiss of the REG. PRICE $1.79 Columbia Music Depart- ment, who has been instru- mental in bringing the issue ■ of Boetticher to public at- Wtih'This Ad tention, and others in the field of musicology, Boet- RGE CHOICE1 ticher assisted Nazi war criminal Alfred Rosenberg, VALENTINE who was hanged in Nurem- CARDS berg, in identifying Jews in 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 SEE ME Jews in Music"). The official Nazi encyclopedia singled out specific Nazi collaborators Sales & Leasing who ferreted out Jews in German music for special persecution. The Nazi book- at AUDETTE CADILLAC said: "Cooperation of great 7100 Orchard Lake value was provided by offi- Rd. cials of the (Nazi) National Department, headed by at Northwestern, Reichsleiter (Alfred) West Bloomfield Rosenberg — namely Dr. Lily Vietig-Michaelis, Dr. (313) 851-7200 Wolfgang Boetticher, and Dr. Hermann Killer . ." The 1938 encyclopedia was actually a witch-hunt PERSONALIZED SERVICE compendium to implement GUARANTEED the anti-Semitic' Nurem- berg laws of 1935, at which SPECIALTY PRINTING h 1982 TIM. AUDETTE . Jewelry Appraisals YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF Personal loss, break-ins and thefts-the numbers are increasing everyday. • CALL TODAY FOR A PRIVATE APPOINTMENT • APPRAISALS: $15 FOR FIRST ITEM AND $5 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL ITEM • WE PURCHASE OLD GOLD AND DIAMOND JEWELRY 26400 West Twelve Mile Road In Southfield's Racquetime Mall Northeast corner of 12 Mile & Northwestern Hwy. 357-557 8 HOURS . Mon., Tues., Wed:, Fri., Sat. - 10-6 Thurs, 1 0-9 . NM= VISA 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. * * * 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- I I 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 1. I 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. 850 S. Woodward Ave., Birmingham, Michigan Open Daily 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. Saturday • Sunday 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. 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