The Case of Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht: The Moral Dilemma of a Tainted Past
Journal: German Studies Review
Year: 2012

Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (1919–1999) was a major figure in musicology in post-war Germany. Thus, when Boris von Haken presented a paper before the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in September 2009, asserting that Eggebrecht—as a member of a notorious German military police unit in the Crimea—had participated in the mass murder of 14,000 Jews from Simferopol in December 1941, he ignited a heated controversy. At the American Musicological Society conference in November 2010, a special session was