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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 07:58 PM
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Jewish works found in Hitler's personal record collection
Jewish works found in Hitler's personal record collection
By Allan Hall in Berlin
Published: 07 August 2007

Relatives of a Russian officer who looted Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker in 1945 have unearthed the Führer's personal record collection among his belongings. What they found does not make sweet music to those who still worship the racial quackery of mankind's greatest tormentor. For amid the Wagner and the Beethoven, were works by Jewish and Russian composers - Hitler's greatest enemies - including Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Borodin.

Throughout the 12-year lifespan of the Third Reich, Hitler forbade his followers to listen to anything other than German composers. Even jazz was banned as "negro swamp music" and orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic were forbidden from playing anything other than Teutonic classics. The rest Hitler labelled "sub-human music"

Now the pillaged recordings, taken by a Red Army officer, Besymenski, after Berlin fell in May 1945, show that Hitler was a hypocrite as well as a monster. Besymenski, himself a Jew, was fluent in German and conducted the interrogation of Field Marshal von Paulus after the Sixth Army was destroyed at Stalingrad in 1943. When Berlin fell, the Russian officer was despatched with others to make an inventory of artefacts in the bunker and Hitler's destroyed Reichschancellery above it.

While his comrades set about recording - and pilfering - the monogrammed silver and swastika-embossed porcelain, Captain Besymenski noticed that many cabinets had special locks and were still sealed. Years later, he wrote these words: "They were all packed with paperwork indicating they were to be sent to the mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden. Among electrical appliances and things like washing machines, were the records." According to Alexandra Besymenski, his daughter, her father kept the records as souvenirs and first showed them to her at the family dacha outside of Moscow in 1991. The much honoured history professor and lecturer at the Moscow Military Academy kept them in the loft at the dacha at Nikolina-Gora. "I stumbled across them as I was looking for a football," his daughter Alexandra told Der Spiegel...

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2841357.ece
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:06 PM
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1. They found some Lee Greenwood records.
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Madspirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:18 PM
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6. "They found some Lee Greenwood records."
:rofl: With or without Nancy Sinatra?

Lee
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:44 PM
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10. No Nancy Sinatra. Hitler had to draw the line somewhere.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:20 PM
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8. rofl
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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book_worm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:10 PM
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2. Lester Maddox, the segreationist gov. of GA once said, "I love the negra singers. I have Louis
Armstrong records. One thing those folks can do is play jazz and dance." A back-handed compliment for sure.
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teenagebambam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:15 PM
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3. It would be hard
to amass a comprehensive Classical music collection withoutg including Jewish composers....or gay ones, for that matter.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:17 PM
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4. Maybe he belonged to a Record Club.
They're always sending me stuff I don't want.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:46 PM
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11. We must occupy NY so Columbia records stops sending me these unwanted records!
In order to do that, I must first conquer Europe!
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 10:03 PM
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13. LOL!
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Madspirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:17 PM
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5. I Had An Aunt...
A long, long time ago I had an aunt who quit listening to The Supremes when she found out they're black. ...and people wonder why I left home at 15. Anyway, she loved them so much, she hid the 45s in her attic room and would occasionally sneak up and listen to them but she took them out of her record collection. :rofl: I know racism is probably the worst "ism" on the planet but that's not what I am laughing about. It's the laughing-instead-of-crying type laugh when something is so absurd you don't know what else to do.

Lee
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 09:29 PM
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12. "when she found out they're black..."
What was her first clue?! :dunce: :rofl:

Then again, my own grandfather once told Mom to stop listening to "fat-lipped n----r music" -- and he meant Elvis! :wtf:
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:19 PM
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7. The Oak Ridge Boys was also a Nazi favorite.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-07-07 08:20 PM
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9. Such self-sacrifice! He listened so the people didn't have to.
Edited on Tue Aug-07-07 08:20 PM by TahitiNut
:eyes: (Reminds me of Smirk & Sneer.)

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
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