Tag: National Socialist Germany
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Béla Bartók (1881-1945): The years in America, triumph over tragedy
James L. FranklinGeorge DuneaChicago, Illinois, United States Black clouds of war were hanging over the world when Béla Bartók and his wife Ditta Pásztory (1903-1982) disembarked in New York Harbor on October 30, 1940. For the remainder of his life, Bartók would learn, as had Dante, “. . . how salt the taste of another…
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Wilhelm Werner’s life unworthy of life: A voice from the Nazi Euthanasia Program
Erika SilvestriBerlin, Germany The medical-scientific sector was among the first to adhere to National Socialism: in 1933, nine doctors sat in Parliament in the ranks of the party.1 After a century of scientific dynamism and in opposition to religious dogma, the eugenic ideal had spread throughout Europe and the United States, taking on the appearance…