> Or he might have hidden his past
> with at least as much skill and brains as John Demjanjuk, the
> death camp guard who moved to Cleveland to work in a steel
> mill.
Demianiuk was convicted of ‘being’ Ivan the Terrible, a particularly brutal
guard at the Treblinka concentration camp, but eventually the Israeli
supreme court overturned the conviction, concluding that Demianiuk, though a
guard at Majdanek, Flossenbürg and Sobibor, and though originally named
Ivan, could not have been _that_ Ivan.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/d/demjanjuk-john/israeli-data/
The story is instructive when it comes to trying to assign guilt and
responsibility in such matters.
As for Bohm, or Klemperer for that matter, I wouldn't be listening to their
recordings of Mozart/Beethoven etc simply on the grounds of performance
practice. Modern period-instrument interpretations are much more to my
taste.
:P
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