Editing Anton Webern (section)

====Kristallnacht and recoil====
{{lang|de|[[Kristallnacht]]|italic=no}} shocked Webern,{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=516–519, 530–531}} who thought that reports of Nazi atrocities were politicized, unreliable propaganda.{{sfnm|Krasner and Seibert|1987|1loc=337|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|2loc=473–474}} He visited and aided Jewish colleagues DJ Bach, {{ill|Otto Jokl|de}}, Polnauer, and Hugo Winter.{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=516–519, 530–531}} For Jokl, a former Berg pupil, Webern wrote a recommendation letter to facilitate emigration. When that failed, Webern served as his [[Godparent#Roman Catholic Church|godfather]] in a 1939 [[Baptism#Catholicism|baptism]].{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=517}} Polnauer, whose emigration [[Mark Brunswick]], Schoenberg, and Webern were unable to secure,{{sfnm|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|1loc=531|Schoenberg|2018|2loc=209}} managed to survive [[the Holocaust]] as an [[albinism|albino]]; he later edited a 1959 UE publication of Webern's correspondence from this time with Humplik and Jone.{{sfnm|Bailey Puffett|1998|1loc=86, 105, 173|Webern|1967}} Webern moved Humplik's 1929 gift of a Mahler [[Bust (sculpture)|bust]] to his bedroom,{{sfnm|Bailey Puffett|1998|1loc=165|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|2loc=340, 385, 530}} having told {{ill|Felix Greissle|de}} in 1936 or 1937 that Mahler's time would come within a German {{lang|de|[[German nationalism#Defining a German nation|Kulturnation]]}}{{sfnm|Bailey Puffett|1998|1loc=150|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|2loc=473–474}} and DJ Bach that "not all Germans are Nazis".{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=473, 680n29}}

With "almost all his friends and old pupils ... gone",{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=500–505}} Webern found himself increasingly alone,{{sfn|Kapp|1999|loc=121–128}} and his financial situation was poor. He talked to Polnauer about emigrating but was reluctant to leave home and family.{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=408–409, 499–500}} He entered a period of "[[Inner emigration|inward emigration]]" and focused on composition,{{sfnm|Bailey Puffett|1998|1loc=174|Kapp|1999|2loc=121–128|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|3loc=499–500}} writing to artist Franz Rederer in 1939, "We live completely withdrawn. I work a lot."{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=517}} He corresponded extensively to maintain relationships, imploring his student [[First Piano Quartet|George Robert]] to play Schoenberg in New York{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=503–504, 519–520, 685}} and expressing his loneliness and isolation to Schoenberg.{{sfn|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|loc=521}} Then war limited postal service,{{sfnm|Kapp|1999|1loc=121–128|Moldenhauer and Moldenhauer|1978|2loc=503–504, 517, 531, 549}} disrupting their direct correspondence completely by 1941.