Spelling Out The Berlin Philharmonic’s Nazi Past

“The Berlin Philharmonic became a privileged servant of Nazi propaganda after Adolf Hitler’s 1933 takeover. The pact with the Nazi regime resulted from the terrible financial situation of the orchestra since the middle of the 1920s, a certain feeling of superiority on the part of the orchestra collective and Goebbel’s vision of cultural propaganda.”

Is Venice Dead?

It’s fashionable to declare it so. The city has a population of only 60,000 and is dominated by tourism. “The Superintendency for architecture, which used to exercise very tight controls on what was done to the interiors of listed buildings, is now allowing them to be turned into hotels, with all the destruction of the originals fabric which that entails.”