Original sentence: But Orff had already composed music for this play as early as 1917 and 1927, long before this was a favour for the Nazi government.Kater made in earlier writings a particularly strong case that Orff collaborated with Nazi authorities , but in his most recent publication "Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits" (2000) Kater has taken back his earlier accusations to some extent.Orff's assertion that he had been anti-Nazi during the war was accepted by the American de-nazification authorities, who changed his previous category of "gray unacceptable" to "gray acceptable", enabling him to continue to compose for public presentation
Edited sentence: Although he had already composed music for this play as early as 1917 and 1927, long before this was a favour for the Nazi government, correspondance to the composer from his publisher (Schott) gives stark evidence that the "non-Arian" Mendelssohn was to be "levered out" of German "business life".Kater made in earlier writings a particularly strong case that Orff collaborated with Nazi authorities , and his most recent publication "Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits" (2000) bears this out to some extent.Orff's assertion that he had been anti-Nazi during the war must be seen as strategic as opposed to a serious claim; it was indeed accepted by the American de-nazification authorities, who changed his previous category of "gray unacceptable" to "gray acceptable", enabling him to continue to compose for public presentation