he sold many box sets. i have met people who would not buy his cds for this reason Herr Doktor says: Oh please…. (I knew someone was going to come up with this hackneyed comparator; I wish I had been disappointed that no one did.) I’m not going to re-state what has been already said 1,000 before. If you would bother to read the scholarship done on the subject by Richard Osborne in the book “Karajan: A Life In Music,” it’s clear Karajan joined the Nazi party to get a job, and it was nothing more than that. He was a non-political person his entire life and was certainly not a Nazi in the way that Karl Bohm, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, etc., actually were. More than that, Karajan married a woman who was considered Jewish by the regime in 1942–which would have been unthinkable if he was actually a Nazi.