Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Herbert von Karajan" in English language version.
Karajan, Herbert von [...] cultured family of Greek-Macedonian extraction whose original name was Karajannis. His father was a medical officer.
Born in Salzburg on 5 April 1908, Karajan was the younger son of a distinguished surgeon and his Slovenian wife. Originally called Karajannis, the Karajan family were Macedonian Greeks who had moved first to Saxony and later to Vienna, where they held important academic, medical, and administrative posts.
Karajan was born in 1908 in Austrian Salzburg, the son of a well-to-do physician of partially Greek-Macedonian ancestry whose forebears had been ennobled while in the service of the Saxon kings.
Zu Lebzeiten wollte sich der Stardirigent nie der Tatsache stellen, Mitglied der NSDAP gewesen zu sein. Bis heute gilt er vielen als bloßer Mitläufer. Dabei zeigen historische Dokumente: Gleich zwei Mal trat er in die Partei ein und nutzte sie bewusst für seine Karriere.[During his lifetime, the star conductor never wanted to face up to the fact that he had been a member of the Nazi Party. To this day, he is regarded by many as a mere follower. Historical documents show that he joined the party twice and deliberately used it for his career.]
