Tweet Marian Young‘s reports contain a mixture of positive and negative views. There was complaining from some sectors, after these reports were published, that they were insufficiently negative. The fundamental sin committed here is that the reports look at Hitler’s
Category: Cultural Life in National-Socialist Germany
Tweet Freddie Brocksieper: Half-Jew Jazz–Musician from National-Socialist Germany Freddie Brocksieper drummed with Charlie and his Orchestra, a swing-band commissioned by Joseph Goebbels to broadcast musical propaganda to the Allies. What follows is a translation from German Wikipedia of an
“It became obvious that even the poorest folk-comrade was devoted to his nation, although he had never been conscious of it as his property. He knew nothing about the cultural merits of his country; he knew the names Wagner, Beethoven,
The first regular television broadcasts in the world began in National-Socialist Germany in 1935 and ended in the fall of 1944. One of the most striking facts shown in this documentary, given no notice at all by the narrator, is
At this National-Socialist gathering Heidegger sits at the table toward the right, marked with an x. Nobody can argue that the great Martin Heidegger was acting under any pressure or stating any view other than his own in this confidential
“One of the strangest photographs of the war was taken by Schulz-Koehn outside La Cigale, a jazz club in Paris. It shows a gypsy (Django), four Africans and a Jew posed smiling beside a fellow officer. The Germans were there
In these film clips from the Third Reich you will see song-and-dance routines similar to some presented in Cabaret. We even get to see the Hungarian-born actress Marika Rökk and a female jazz-pianist wearing a men’s clothes. Supposedly all that