Thread by @IjehudaB

As a music education student I was introduced relatively early in my studies to #CarlOrff . in the community of music teachers, he is often mentioned with high regards, Music instruments are known as 'Orff instruments', schools & streets all over 🇩🇪 are named after this #Nazi /1

Although his history of cooperation with the NS regime is well documented, I don't think it's very well known and from my experience it's barely ever mentioned. He activily cooperated with the regime and the Hitler-Jugend, sometimes as the official composer of Nazi Germany /2

He composed the music for the abominable 36 Olympics in Berlin, his now well renowned music pedagogy was first tested using the Hitler Jugend. He and his concerts enjoyed the praise & indorsements of the regime while his fellow Jewish composers lost their positions and rights. /3

He remained a composer for the Nazis through the years of the war and the Holocaus, but after the allies captured Germany in 45 he started lying and claimed he was actually a part of an anti Nazi resistance, which was immediately refuted. But the allies didn't really care /4

Some of his defenders claim he was just an opportunist as if this is some kind of excuse, but I like the saying: "how do you call a person that sits together with Nazis? A Nazi." You might ask: 'Jehuda, why you cancelling a composer that's been dead 40 years?' to that I say /5

The same way there should never be a Goebbels street, there shouldn't be no Orff street. Want to use his pedagogical methods? Go for it, but don't let that Nazi have his name associated with education, he should be remembered as a part of the most murderous regime in history /end

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