Unfair to Furtwängler
Nicholas Spice
- Trial of Strength: Furtwängler and the Third Reich by Fred Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan
Quartet, 394 pp, £30.00, October 1991, ISBN 0 7043 2790 2 - Menuhin: A Family Portrait by Tony Palmer
Faber, 207 pp, £15.99, September 1991, ISBN 0 571 16582 6
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. He that is sure he is free from sin, Prieberg seems to say, let him cast the first stone.
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