Jazz in Nazi Germany: The Music That Wouldn’t Die

After being relegated to the background for a long time, the search for the instruments stoned at Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War experienced a new breath. Meeting with its actors.

Jazz in Nazi Germany: The Music That Wouldn’t Die

Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried so desperately to suppress it, to twist it, to erase it. And yet, even in those darkest of times, music found a way to persist—not as a passive relic, but as an act of defiance and expression, a refusal to be silenced.  And now, as political forces seek greater control over cultural institutions, as artis…