And while Hitler was embracing the Aryan racism of Wagner, he was banning the beautiful music of Mendelssohn, who was Jewish by race, but not by faith.
Makes you realize music has power, doesn't it?
“I think Strauss was a Nazi sympathizer, wasn’t he?”
His daughter-in-law Alice was Jewish, and he moved heaven and earth to successfully keep her and his grandchildren alive during the war. However, his efforts to save Alice’s relatives ( Strauss travelled to Theresienstadt to try to use his pretige to free them ) were unsuccessful, and they were murdered by the NAZIs. Richard Strauss was neither a NAZI nor a sympathizer.