Collaboration And Acquiescence

Two plays examining the various prominent artists and performers who collaborated with or stayed silent under Hitler’s reign are on show in Chichester, England. “The implied question – what would you do, and when? – strikes keenly, but is not necessarily one we could answer honestly from our safe distance. Would we, like Strauss, acquiesce in the face of threats to our family? Like Furtwängler, continue to believe in the sanctity of our art? Follow Zweig into exile and suicide?”