International Herald Tribuneの記事なり；
ヒトラーが実際に聴いていたのかどうかはまだ確証がないものの、反スラヴ、反ユダヤ主義のヒトラーが露西亜・ユダヤ系の音楽を蒐集していたのはどうよということらしい。記事では”a secret hypocrisy”という言葉を使っている。日本映画ファンである金正日はどうよということもいえそうだが、あれはsecretではないからいいのか。もうひとつの問題は、このコレクションが蘇聯の情報部員によって持ち出されたということで、独逸における蘇聯による美術品等の掠奪の問題が再度クローズ・アップされることになるだろう。また、数十年後には米国の退役軍人宅の物置からサダム・フセインのCDコレクションが発見されるといったことになるのか。
Music cache from Hitler's headquarters features Jewish and Russian musicians
By Michael Schwirtz
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
MOSCOW: Outward hatred for Jews and Russians may have belied a secret passion for some of their greatest musical works, if a recently discovered cache of records proves to be the remains of Adolf Hitler's private music collection.
The nearly 100 records, now worn and scratched, were stored in the attic of a former Soviet intelligence agent, who left a note saying he took them from Hitler's Chancellery after the fall of Berlin in 1945.
Among the records are recordings of works by Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Rachmaninov and prominent Russian and Jewish musicians, notably Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish Jewish violinist, an article in this week's Der Spiegel magazine said.
The discovery, if legitimate, could indicate a secret hypocrisy on the part of Hitler but could also force a new look at Russia's treatment of artifacts seized from museums in Germany and elsewhere during and after World War II.
The former Soviet intelligence officer, Lev Besymenski, described pilfering the records from the Chancellery at the end of World War II.
They remained hidden until last week when his daughter, Aleksandra Besymenskaya, showed them to Der Spiegel. Besymenski died in June at the age of 86.
"I was astonished that Russian musicians were among the collection," Besymenski wrote. Tens of millions of Russians and Jews were killed in concentration camps and during the war.
The recordings were each stamped with the label "Führerhauptquartier," indicating that they belonged to Hitler's headquarters, although Der Spiegel put forward no other evidence that Hitler had actually listened to or owned them.
Der Spiegel suggested that Besymenski, a former history professor in Moscow, kept quiet about the records for fear of being branded a looter, although Russia has tended to glorify its sizable collection of war spoils.
An exhibition of looted German art, titled "Archaeology of War: The Return From Oblivion," at the State Pushkin Museum of the Fine Arts in Moscow, provoked criticism from the German government when it opened in May 2005 to observe the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Besymenskaya said she had not decided what to do with the recordings, which remain in her possession.
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