Talk:Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

message: On Schwarzkopf's ties with the Nazi Party
It is an undisputed fact that Elisabeth Schwarzkopf joined the Nazi party. It is also true that her insouciance when confronted about it later in life was startling bordering on offensive. That said, I submit that she is unfairly singled out when she is one of many prominent German artists who signed on the dotted line in order to protect her career under the Third Reich. This encyclopedia includes entries on dozens of Austrio-German musicians who joined the Nazi Party as a matter of professional expedience. Few of those entries mention Nazi ties at all, let alone excoriate their subjects with the degree of vitriol that has been directed at Schwarzkopf in numerous revisions of this article. There is nothing in her biography to suggest that she was ideologically aligned with the Nazi Party. She made a deal with the devil, but it's unlikely that Schwarzkopf could have appreciated, much less anticipated, the depravity and atrocities that would become the Nazi Party's enduring legacies. As much as most of us would like to think her "collaboration" was an exceptional breach of morality, it was commonplace at best. I'm grateful that I've never lived in such terrifying times, not only because it would necessitate my making agonizing decisions, but because I'm relatively certain among the many people I respect or admire I would be disappointed several times over.
:Any associations with the nazi party during the war and just before it are both irrelevant to most people in the world. Just because some Americans are hung up about it is THEIR problem, not the rest of the world. Elisabeth was a well received and popular soprano in my country and most others just after the war. We like her singing! Many artists, including American Maria Callas sang before nazi audiences. People who go on about collaboration etc. are to my mind just plain evil. Wallie 10:53, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done. I fully agree. Wallie 19:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
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message: It is understandable that Schwarzkopf - who was clearly non-political - would downplay her essentially compulsory membership of the Nazi party. As do many former Communist Party members in Germany, Poland, Russia, and other former communist tyrannies. To say that she was guilty "of typical suppression reactions and ruthless careerism in the Nazi era" is to use highly emotive (and ungrammatical) language, and to go well beyond standard criticism of former involuntary members of the Nazi party.101.98.209.132 (talk) 05:05, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
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message: I find "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was an only child, and thus had no nieces or nephews." a bit strange. What does being an only child have to do with having no nieces or nephews? Barbara Touburg (talk) 14:22, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Because a niece or nephew is a child of your brother or sister. Valetude (talk) 11:31, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
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message: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Hurakami.  Any other? 70.163.163.245 (talk) 02:30, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: a) It would help if you would spell Haruki Murakami's name right, and b) link to Sputnik Sweetheart, and c) provide sources that the novel mentions Schwarzkopf in a significant way. Whithout that, this fails WP:POPCULTURE. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:42, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referenced in books and popular culture