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Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstängl, Hitler's onetime pianist-in-waiting, who spent most of the war in Allied hands, was back in Germany and suing the fatherland for damages. He had fled for his life in 1937, he told the Bavarian State Commission for Persecutees, and he wanted $16,150 compensation...
Hindemith v. Hanfstängl. FurtwĠngler's biggest struggle came in 1934 when he was readying Paul Hindemith's opera Mat his der Maler for the Berlin Opera. Hindemith, a modernist, was a particular enemy of Hitler's famed musical adviser, Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstangl. Orders came from Goring to postpone the performance indefinitely. FurtwĠngler thereupon wrote an article for the Berlin papers denouncing Nazi musical policy and claiming a free artist's right to perform whatever he liked...
...Ambassador to Turkey, returned home when the German armies collapsed, later represented Germany at the League of Nations, retired in 1931 after 50 years of diplomatic service. Opposed to the present German Government, he considers anti-Semitism a blot on the national honor, reprints a strange letter from Ernst Hanfstäengl, now Hitler's Chief of Press Relations, in which the Harvard-educated Nazi expresses great admiration for Bernstorff and very liberal views...