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2012-09-23 02:00:00
A Violin Once Owned by Goebbels Keeps Its Secrets
A trail of whispers has followed the Japanese violinist Nejiko Suwa and her violin, a gift from Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels.
2012-09-22 17:03:00
"Goebbels" Violin
On 22 February 1943, Josef Goebbels gave a violin to a 23-year-old Japanese violinist named Nejiko Suwa. Goebbels said it was a Stradivarius, though we don't know which violin, where it came form or even whether it was a Strad at all. What we can be sure of, it was not "Goebbels' " violin. It may have been one of thousands of objects misappropriated: the Goebbels connection gives it notoriety. Whatever the background, Ms Suwa defended it with her life. As the Third Reich collapsed, she guarded it even as she slept. She had to jump from trains under bombardment, and cross the Atlantic when she, as a Japanese national, was taken prisoner by the Americans. But still she treasured the instrument. When she finally returned to Japan, she told the press, “I have risked my life to protect it.” That, I think, counts for something. Whoever the original […]
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