Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2004/12

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Scaramouche
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:37:51 -0500

[Great big snip from Lelia note about Rascher leaving Germany]

"Of course, common knowledge can be wrong, and even first-hand
reports,
especially when given years after the events being described,
aren't always
reliable. As time goes by, people sometimes revise their own or
their
relatives' biographies. But, Dan, aside from the *absence* of
the
information in some secondary sources, is there a more specific
reason for
your skepticism?"

Lelia Loban

Lelia, it was not scepticsm as much as it was trying to put
Rascher in the right category. People left Germany in 1939 for
only three reasons: (1) they were ethnically unsuitable to remain
in Germany and were smart enough to get out; (2) they were
politcally unsuitable and were smart enough to realize that if
they stayed, they'd be in deep trouble; (3) they had a moral
conscience and refused to remain in a country that violated such
basic human rights.

The preponderance of those who left were in the first category,
far fewer in the second, and only a very small percentage in the
third. I was simply curious to understand whether he was a
category 2 or 3, but I doubt very much that he was ethnically
unsuitable for the Germany of that era; i.e., he was neither a
Jew nor a person of Jewish descent.

Whichever slot he fell into, he was good forsight because as he
built his famous and long lasting career in the U.S., Germany had
the wrath of the world fall on them and did not even begin to
recover until the mid 1950s.

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