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1 week ago

Georg Friedrich Haas, composer: It is better to be a pervert than a murderer'

Georg Friedrich Haas, descendant of Nazis and abuse survivor, composed 'In vain' (2000), a microtonal masterpiece confronting inherited horror and political regression.
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3 weeks ago

The unsuspecting grandson of Heinrich Himmler on Spain's Costa del Sol

I felt like a pressure cooker, he recalls. My children had never seen me like that. I wasn't myself. Lenkeit explains that, at age 47, he had just discovered by chance and in horror that his maternal grandmother, Hedwig Potthast (1912-1994) had been the lover of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo, and one of the architects of the murder of six million Jews during Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
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