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HITLER SECRETLY LISTENED TO MUSIC BY JEWISH COMPOSERS

DAILY MAIL - Adolf Hitler kept a vast record collection of 'forbidden'
music by Jewish composers, it was revealed. Recordings by Mendelssohn
and Offenbach were hidden in sealed boxes - but scratchmarks suggest
they were among his favorites.
Russian composers were also banned under the Third Reich. But in private
Hitler repeatedly played Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky and hundreds more
works he publicly labeled "sub-human music".

The secrets of what the Nazi dictator really liked to listen to were
revealed by the family of a Russian officer who stole the music from his
bunker in 1945. Captain Lew Besymenski, who was Jewish, was ordered with
other Red Army troops to make an inventory of artifacts in the bunker
after Berlin fell. He found the huge collection in sealed crates and
sent it back home to Moscow on a train. According to his daughter
Alexandra, he kept the records as souvenirs and first showed them to her
at the family dacha outside Moscow in 1991.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in
_article_id=473611&in_page_id=1811


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