dtgk 25/8/

[MaryDou]

Last one - and just cannot find the answer - is anyone able to help please? 39a Dutch conductor who was found guilty of Nazi collaboration and sentenced to exile (the letters I have are ?E?G?L?E?G). Any help would be appreciated

[the conch]

39a Mengelberg

[sag]

Mengelberg

[MaryDou]

Many thanks for your speedy reply the conch

[MaryDou]

.... and to you too sag

[08012006]

The most controversial aspect of Mengelberg's biography centers around his actions and behavior during the years of the Nazi occupation of Holland between 1940 and 1945. Some newspaper articles of the time gave the appearance that he acquiesced to the presence of the Nazi's ideological restrictions on particular composers. Explanations have ranged from political naivet� in general, to a general "blind spot" of criticism of anything German, given his own ancestry. Because of Mengelberg's co-operation with the occupying regime in The Netherlands during World War II, he was banned from conducting in the country by the Dutch government after the war in 1945. He was stripped of his honours and his passport. The original judgment was that Mengelberg would be banned from conducting in the Netherlands for the remainder of his life. Appeals by his attorneys led to a reduction in the sentence to a banning of six years from conducting, retroactively applied to start from 1945