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Vienna Philharmonic admits sending Jewish musicians to their deaths in Hitler’s camps

On the 75th anniversary of Austria’s Anschluss with Germany, the famous orchestra is giving up dark secrets about its past On 23 March 1938, the violinist Viktor Robitsek received a curt note from the management of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. It told him he was being fired. Robitsek’s “crime” had…