Unfair to Furtwängler
Nicholas Spice, 5 December 1991
Trial of Strength: Furtwängler and the Third Reich
by Fred Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan.
Quartet, 394 pp., £30, October 1991,0 7043 2790 2 Show More
by Fred Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan.
Quartet, 394 pp., £30, October 1991,
Menuhin: A Family Portrait
by Tony Palmer.
Faber, 207 pp., £15.99, September 1991,0 571 16582 6 Show More
by Tony Palmer.
Faber, 207 pp., £15.99, September 1991,
“... The special venom we reserve for collaborators has something defensive about it, as though we reviled them so as to separate ourselves from them, warding off the fear that in their situation we might have acted as they did. Trial of Strength is written in the conviction that those who have never known the dilemmas of the subject in an occupied state, are in no position to judge those who have ... ”