farzin negahban that's a myth. There was never any talk about "proving the aryan superiority" either before or during the 1936 Olympics in Germany. Jesse Ovens was well liked in Germany, inter viewed in German radio and there were more collecing cards with Ovens than any other athlete in Germany. And Hitlers favourite amongst the Gold medalliours wasn't "aryan", but the egyptian weightlifter Khadr El-Touni. A north african. Look El-Touni up on Wikipedia.
@@sleepypixel287 Owens mentioned in his book that Hitler was kind to him, saluted and treated him like any other athlete. Roosevelt did not even send him a letter congratulating him. Stop trying to stir up anti German hatred. You're failing miserably.
The Nazis started the war. What gave them the right to invade other countries? They murdered innocent people in gas chambers. It is a good thing that they were stopped.
I never heard a worse music by Strauss - he had to do it and you can hear that he didn't want. He liked money (and Mahler once noted that he was bored from Strauss after meeting him after a performance of the splendid 'Salome' because Strauss only spoke about the money he could do with that opera - so a jew was bored by an arian because the arian only spoke too much about money :-D ) - and as he was established in Germany as the best german composer after the emigration of real contemporary composers he had no more choice - too charachterless to resist (though he had influence enough to change something) and too old, to emigrate. - At least he didn't die poor and none of his relatives were killed in a KZ (like Mahler's). - So: he was an opportunist
Strauss fell out of favour with the Reich when his mail - intercepted and read like everyone's - was found to have a healthy dose of insulting comments about members of the party. He was relieved of all duties and his music banned for a short time. He was 80 at the time and festivities celebrating him were put on hold until other musicians pointed out how bad it looked to have someone of his stature silenced. I'm not implying that he was a victim of the Reich or that we should feel sorry for him, only that even Richard Strauss wasn't immune from his government's policies.
I find this song very beautiful. Most people would prefer this music to the Second Viennese School. Richard Strauss and Carl Orff were two of the greatest composers living in the Third Reich.
