Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight.
The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich – albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
The world-famous conductor made a pact with Hitler and his henchmen. The young woman, brought to Auschwitz for being Jewish, was spared death for her musical talent. While Furtwängler decided to stay in Germany and make a deal with the devil, Lasker-Wallfisch struggled to survive the brutality of the death camp, with a cello as her only defense. Why did gifted artists like Furtwängler make a pact with evil? Why was classical music played in extermination camps? And how did this change the way victims saw music?
German music was used to justify the powerful position the Third Reich claimed in the world, and to distract listeners from Nazi crimes. In addition to Beethoven, Bach and Brucker, Richard Wagner was highly valued, because he was Hitler’s personal favorite. Hitler understood the power of music, and his chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels was in charge of music in the Nazi-controlled state.
This music documentary by Christian Berger features interviews with musicians like Daniel Barenboim and Christian Thielemann; the children of Wilhelm Furtwängler; and of course 97-year-old survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Her memories are chilling. Archive film footage, restored and colorized, brings the story to life, and bears witness to an agonizing chapter in history.
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"Hate is a poison and in the end you only poison yourself". Wise words coming from super tough lady. Thank you very much DW for this documentary which is an eye-opener and also how much we have to be thankful for in our day to day lives.
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is that true? sigh.
First of all. stop calling Hakenkreuz "swastika". Do some research and understand the difference.
Excellent docu. Thank you and keep up the quality of your work.
What is this documentary rated? I wanted to watch something like this with my Middle School Students!! 🙂
5:27 god damn
BLAME COMMUNISM ALSO, DON'T BE HYPOCRITES WITH INTENT TO BRAINWASH! WHOEVER WANTS TO KNOW, GET INFORMED, COMMUNISM HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE ON EARTH TO THE DAYS THAN NAZISM, BUT IN THE COMMENTS THE ALIENATES DON'T REMEMBER TO BLAME COMMUNISM ALSO! ONLY NAZISM WAS THE 7 HEADED BUG, WHILE COMMUNISM CONTINUES TO CLEAN THE DAY WE ARE! NORTH KOREA, CHINA, CHILE, CUBA, VENEZUELA, IRAN, RUSSIA, AFGHANISTAN, AND MORE! DON'T JUST BLAME NAZISM, COMMUNISM IS TIMES AND TIMES MORE DEATHS THAN NAZISM! STUDY
DW The music at 14:07 of mein vaterland of werner egk can you pls upload it complete I cant find it in any place
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coming to some english channel to learn english, but any channel i click has deutch or russian narrators. wtf
''The more horrible a depersonalized scientific mass war becomes, the more necessary it is to find universal ideal motives to justify it. Love of Helen of Troy has become a burning love for all humanity, and hatred of the foe symbolizes a hatred of all the unrighteousness and injustice and oppression which he embodies. The more prosaic the actual causes, the more necessary is it to find glowingly sublime motives.'' – John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct.
The first collaborator was His Majesty's Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Those who demanded the resistance of ordinary people living in Germany would not first say yes to Hitler's demands.
Not ALL Germans supported that horrific leader who held anti-Semitic views! Albert Einstein definitely falls
into that category.
The nazis were evil sadistic rotten human beings but i guarantee this will happen again because people are inherently evil regardless of your opinion i promise this statement is true history will repeat itself
The world language was not German a rabbie pray for me my family told me I will learn best of English no worry no need for me and us learn German
I mean… He was fucking based
This brought tears to my eyes , evil can be defeated .
The kind of intellectual purges that the Nazis do, is now ongoing in Hong Kong by CCP's apparachiks
Speer describes in his memoirs a brief meeting with Furtwängler near the end of the war, during which Furtwängler asked him if Germany had definitely lost the war. My impression was that the maestro indeed wanted Germany to win the war. It is unfortunate he was so fanatically patriotic that he was willing to back his country, even when it was ruled by such an evil regime.
Wonderful documentary ! Didn’t know orchestras exist in such horrible places !
I listen to this music on the daily.
1:24:45, Someone, please give me the name of this peace.
VAT ⚡⚡ MO AB ⭕🗽🌏 AL MIGHTY MOOR 🐘⚓ Love Truth peace freedom justice ⚖️ culture 👁️ old time religion ⚖️ E PLURIBUS UNUM Abraham 👻🪄 SMITTY ALLI ⚡⚡🌀 PASHA 🍀 ALI ☁️ NO Israelite Moor Moorish American is a black chattel subject 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
Thanks DW for your documentaries. This one was sad but inspiring… I admired Anita Lasker. A very strong character!
Offcourse if you let a pet at home and you die underway, and u are the only source for feeding him, offcourse the pet dies. But thats not because the pet went into the gaschamber
THANK YOU ! The question is: Why could so many people believe the lies of this idiots ?
Because of the danger of mass formation, our rebellion against the forces of evil continues today.
In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, justice & truth we express our feelings with music on our channel:
Greetings from Germany … CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS
Aushwitz was a labor camp, nothing more
propagonda also by liberal and communist. all are same.
So how come Germans using our HINDUS, SWASTIKA, seems evil 😈 Germans in in BHARAT during the ,Islam in BHARAT so first HOLOCAUST began on HINDUS 🕉 in with Islam and Germans did on HINDUS 🕉 then RAKAHASA, HITLER done on "JEWISH ✡ ',evil 😈, HOLOCAUST both HINDUS AND JEWISH ✡, same done by Islam and Germans used SWASTIKA, is used in our RAMAYANA, AND BHAGWAD GITA AND MAHABHARAT, in in TRADITIONAL, CULTURES, RELIGIOUS PORPOSES in in marriages, so both 😈, RAKAHASA Islam and Germans done HOLOCAUST, MASSACRED, LIVES, LIVE are 😈 too ISHWER, GOD, BHAGWAN, MESSIAH
Hi everyone, ¿someone knows the name of the song starting the video?
Let me say this: Alma Rose did not need to end up in Auschwitz. Her father was safe in England. She chose to go to the Netherlands where she thought she was safe to continue with her career. After the Germans entered the country, she went into hiding but was eventually betrayed by a friend and was picked up. Even then, she was pretty "safe" in the concentration camp until she got ill after eating some rotten food or something poisoned. What are we to make of the farmers and the laborers who served German interests during the war? Are they accomplices, too? Even the apostles fled when Jesus was arrested. Jesus forgave them. Furtwangler betrayed his conscience but to him, Germany was his homeland. He could not get himself to betray it. Ultimately, his talent and his musical family saved him. He made the wrong choice, but was forgiven. There is Justice, but there is also Mercy.
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Thank you for another revealing history lesson. It's amazing how music helped many Jews to survive such atrocities to then be able to tell the world about another dark side of the war which may not have been clearly evident. It makes me think and I am glad. Thank you for this marvellous production.
A wonderfully insightful and moving documentary. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch became an artistic heroine in a Europe consumed by evil and madness.
Ask Von der Leyen about it.
Eine gute Regierung ohne Propaganda kann genauso wennig bestehen wie eine gute Propaganda ohne eine gute Regierung "Goebbels"
Just imagine your school made you sing german ww2 songs😢
Impossible to destroy music? Not according to the Jewish Marxist and architect of Communism (at the start of Soviet Russia) Vladimir Ulyanov "Lenin," who infamously once stated that, "One quick way to destroy a society is through its music."
"German music was used to distract the world from Nazi crimes." Why don't you get that the Russians are doing exactly the same right now?
The obvious truth is the truth
27:15 busted
Is this documentary available in spanish❓
Pleaaaase, give me a “Werner EGK – Mein Vaterland” link!!!
Sweet music4gud
Mision omisidio muere alemania auto destrakabalos serebro la mano deDios777usion de german Eu ue zetas polonia
I wish the USA would do like Germany and teach the truth about the evil past of our country. We might have been able to get rid of it. Instead…we have a political party yearning to duplicate The Third Reich!
German People are not stupid
it’s almost like the people who created and ran Mtv weaponized music to a much greater extent. i bet if we added up all the people who died from the glamorous lifestyles that lead to self destruction it would overshadow all the world wars.